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{{Infobox ALEC Bills
|bill_title          = Driving Automation System Uniformity Act
|date_introduced     = August 10, 2018
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|date_finalized      = September 18, 2018
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|type                = Model Policy
|status              = Final
|task_forces         = Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development; Communications and Technology
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<h1>Driving Automation System Uniformity Act</h1>

<p>(a) “Driving automation system” means hardware and software that are collectively capable of performing part or all of the dynamic driving task on a sustained basis. The term driving automation system is used generically to describe any system capable of level 1-5 driving automation, as specified in SAE International Recommended Practice J3016, including, but not limited to, core vehicle functions as listed in Section 1(b).</p>
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<p>(b) “Dynamic driving task” means all of the real-time operational and tactical functions required to operate a vehicle in on-road traffic, excluding the strategic functions such as trip scheduling and selection of destinations and waypoints, and including without limitation:</p>
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<p>Lateral vehicle motion control via steering (operational);</p>
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<p>Longitudinal vehicle motion control via acceleration and deceleration (operational);</p>
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<p>Monitoring the driving environment via object and event detection, recognition, classification, and response preparation (operational and tactical);</p>
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<p>Object and event response execution (operational and tactical);</p>
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<p>Maneuver planning (tactical); and</p>
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<p>Enhancing conspicuity via lighting, signaling and gesturing, etc. (tactical). </p>
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<p>Section 2. Preemption of Localities</p>
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<p>(a) Only the State may enact a law or take any other action to regulate the operation of motor vehicles equipped with driving automation systems in the State.</p>
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<p>(b) Subsection (a) of this section:</p>
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<p>(1) preempts the authority of a county or municipality to prohibit, restrict, or regulate the operation of motor vehicles equipped with driving automation systems on the basis of those vehicles being equipped with driving automation systems; and</p>
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<p>(2) supersedes any existing law or ordinance of a county or municipality that prohibits, restricts, or regulates the testing or operation of motor vehicles equipped with driving automation systems.</p>