New York A 4901: Relates to autonomous vehicle driving

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A04901 Summary:

BILL NOA04901B

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SAME ASSAME AS S00344-B

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SPONSORCunningham

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COSPNSRLevenberg, Carroll P, Cook, Eachus, Jensen, McDonough, Lupardo, Solages, Burroughs, Pheffer Amato,
 Hevesi, Wright, Romero, De Los Santos, Beephan, Stirpe, McDonald, Powers, Gray

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 34-E §§1290 - 1298, §§383-a & 301-c, V & T L

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Provides that a person may operate a fully autonomous vehicle on the public roads of this state without a human driver provided that the automated driving system is engaged and the vehicle meets certain conditions; defines terms; requires insurance and that such vehicle is registered as a fully autonomous vehicle; makes related provisions.

Go to top A04901 Actions:

BILL NOA04901B

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02/10/2025referred to transportation

03/20/2025amend and recommit to transportation

03/20/2025print number 4901a

01/07/2026referred to transportation

04/24/2026amend and recommit to transportation

04/24/2026print number 4901b

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4901--B

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM, LEVENBERG, P. CARROLL, COOK, EACHUS,
 JENSEN, McDONOUGH, LUPARDO, SOLAGES, BURROUGHS, PHEFFER AMATO, HEVESI,
 WRIGHT, ROMERO, DE LOS SANTOS, BEEPHAN, STIRPE, McDONALD, POWERS --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in
 accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to autonomous
 vehicle driving

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
 2 article 34-E to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 34-E
 4 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DRIVING
 5 Section 1290. Definitions.
 6 1291. Operation of fully autonomous vehicles without a human
 7 driver.
 8 1292. Licensing.
 9 1293. Insurance.
 10 1294. Duties following crashes involving fully autonomous vehi-
 11 cles.
 12 1295. On-demand autonomous vehicle network.
 13 1296. Registration and title.
 14 1297. Controlling authority.
 15 1298. Operation of a motor vehicle with an automated driving
 16 system by a human driver.
 17 § 1290. Definitions. For purposes of this article the following terms
 18 shall have the following meanings:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00929-12-6

 A. 4901--B 2

 1 1. "Automated driving system" shall mean the hardware and software
 2 that are collectively capable of performing the entire dynamic driving
 3 task on a sustained basis, regardless of whether it is limited to a
 4 specific operational design domain;
 5 2. "Dynamic driving task or DDT" shall mean all of the real-time oper-
 6 ational and tactical functions required to operate a vehicle in on-road
 7 traffic, excluding the strategic functions such as trip scheduling and
 8 selection of destinations and waypoints, and including without limita-
 9 tion: lateral vehicle motion control via steering, longitudinal motion
 10 control via acceleration and deceleration, monitoring the driving envi-
 11 ronment via object and event detection, recognition, classification, and
 12 response preparation, object and event response execution, maneuver
 13 planning; and enhancing conspicuity via lighting, signaling, and gestur-
 14 ing;
 15 3. "DDT Fallback" shall mean the response by the person or human driv-
 16 er to either perform the DDT or achieve a minimal risk condition after
 17 occurrence of a DDT performance-relevant system failure or failures or
 18 upon operational design domain exit, or the response by an automated
 19 driving system to achieve minimal risk condition, given the same circum-
 20 stances;
 21 4. "Fully autonomous vehicle" shall mean a motor vehicle:
 2