Sponsor
Debbie Dingell
Representative · D-MI
Representative · D-MI
The bill would force large automakers to put alcohol-impaired driving prevention technology into a minimum number of vehicles each year—likely improving public safety and consumer access to the tech but raising vehicle costs, creating short-term supply risks, leaving smaller-makers' vehicles without the tech, and adding regulatory complexity.
All drivers and passengers: large manufacturers must produce at least 10,000 passenger vehicles per year with alcohol-impaired driving prevention technology, which should reduce drunk-driving crashes, injuries, and deaths.
Consumers and taxpayers: the bill speeds deployment of improved impairment-prevention systems by automatically incorporating revised Euro NCAP safety standards into U.S. requirements unless DOT objects after notice-and-comment, helping keep standards current.
Vehicle buyers: by requiring a baseline number of compliant vehicles from large manufacturers, the law increases market availability of alcohol-impaired driving prevention tech, which can create scale economies and broader consumer access over time.
Vehicle buyers and families: large manufacturers will face higher development and compliance costs that are likely to be passed on in higher vehicle prices.
Consumers and small businesses: the short 180-day compliance window risks supply disruptions, limited model availability, or production bottlenecks if manufacturers cannot certify 10,000 compliant vehicles quickly.
Owners of vehicles from smaller manufacturers: the mandate applies only to very large manufacturers (>250,000 vehicles), leaving many newer or smaller-brand vehicles without the safety tech in the near term and creating uneven safety coverage across the fleet.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires large automakers to offer at least 10,000 passenger vehicles per year equipped with approved alcohol-impairment detection and lane/driver alcohol-detection systems.
Official title: To amend title 49, United States Code, to require manufacture, sale, or import of a minimum number of motor vehicles that met certain standards for drunk and impaired driving prevention, and for other purposes.
Introduced December 18, 2025 by Debbie Dingell · Last progress December 18, 2025
Requires large passenger-vehicle manufacturers to produce at least 10,000 passenger vehicles per year that include required alcohol-impaired-driving prevention technology conforming to the DADSS Subsystem Performance Specification and specific Euro NCAP lane/driver alcohol-detection criteria, with manufacturers required to comply within 180 days of enactment. The rule automatically tracks future Euro NCAP revisions unless the Secretary of Transportation finds a revision inadequate, and the new requirement sunsets when a related DOT rule from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act takes effect.