Driver Technology and Pedestrian Safety Act of 2025

This bill directs the Secretary of Transportation to seek an agreement, within 3 months of enactment and if funding is provided, with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study how driver-controlled technology in cars, such as touch screens, relates to serious traffic injuries and deaths, including those of pedestrians and bicyclists. The study would compare touch screens to physical controls like knobs and switches, and compare touch screen use to smartphone use while driving. Within 24 months of the agreement, the Secretary would send a report to Congress and post it online. Within 2 months after that, the Secretary would send Congress recommendations to reduce traffic injuries and deaths and to change federal crash data surveys to track touch screen and smartphone use while driving.

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Sponsors

• Kevin Mullin Democrat sponsor
• 6 cosponsors