Advance the SELF DRIVE Act to strengthen autonomous vehicle safety requirements, clarify NHTSA authority, improve crash data transparency, and promote U.S. leadership in autonomous vehicle innovation.

Robert E. Latta · Ohio · Republican

policy impact 3.00 specificity 1.00 extraction confidence 97%

Occurrences

The bill would strengthen safety requirements, clarify NHTSA's authority, improve crash data transparency, and promote U.S. leadership in autonomous vehicles innovation.

Latta backs advancing his autonomous vehicle bill with specific safety, transparency, and innovation provisions.

Latta Sends Letter to Secretary Duffy Applauding Administration's Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Leadership
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Evidence

The House committee substitute for H.R. 3388 adds sections on NHTSA authority and state preemption, updated vehicle safety standards, cybersecurity, exemptions, buyer information, and privacy plans for highly automated vehicles.

Official bill text shows Latta's SELF DRIVE Act advanced the specific safety, regulatory, and transparency framework in the claim, even though it was not yet law.

partial same_term A for effort

Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 3388 (SELF DRIVE Act)
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Wired reported that the House passed the SELF DRIVE Act and that the bill would give NHTSA authority over vehicle design and performance, set deadlines for safety rules, and require privacy planning for passenger data.

House passage was a concrete legislative advance, but the article also notes the Senate still had to act before the framework could become law.

partial same_term A for effort

Congress Unites (Gasp) to Spread Self-Driving Cars Across America
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Axios reported that Latta was reintroducing the SELF Drive Act in Congress to push autonomous-vehicle legislation, saying the effort was about U.S. leadership and safety while acknowledging the earlier effort had stalled in the Senate.

This is a serious later-term attempt to revive the same bill, but it still fell short of enactment.

unresolved later_term A for effort

Exclusive: New push for autonomous vehicles bill
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Assessments

delivered same_term

Latta materially advanced the SELF DRIVE Act in the 115th Congress: the bill text incorporated the claimed safety, NHTSA authority, privacy/transparency, and innovation provisions, and the House passed it in September 2017. It did not become law because the Senate did not act, but the promise was to advance the act rather than to secure final enactment. On that narrower federal legislative standard, committee advancement and House passage count as delivery during the same term.

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