AV Emergency Response Coordination Act

This bill would require companies that make or operate self-driving vehicles to give the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration an emergency response guide and a rescue sheet explaining how emergency responders can communicate with, move, disable, and access their vehicles. Companies would have to share these documents and a point of contact with local emergency and transportation agencies before operating in an area, and the agency would post them on a public website. Companies would have to run a 24-hour emergency hotline that answers within 30 seconds and obey government requests to keep their vehicles out of certain areas during emergencies. The agency would also write a rule setting minimum standards for how companies let responders handle these vehicles, and violations could bring civil penalties.

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Sponsors

• Kevin Mullin Democrat sponsor
• 0 cosponsors