New York A 3650: Abbagail's law prohibits supervising drivers from acting under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs

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A03650 Summary:

BILL NOA03650 

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SAME ASSAME AS S00344

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SPONSORSolages

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COSPNSR

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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 A03650 Actions:

BILL NOA03650 

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01/29/2025referred to transportation

02/05/2025enacting clause stricken

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3650

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 29, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Transportation

 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:
 19 1. "Automated driving system" shall mean the hardware and software
 20 that are collectively capable of performing the entire dynamic driving
 21 task on a sustained basis, regardless of whether it is limited to a
 22 specific operational design domain;
 23 2. "Dynamic driving task or DDT" shall mean all of the real-time oper-
 24 ational and tactical functions required to operate a vehicle in on-road
 25 traffic, excluding the strategic functions such as trip scheduling and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00929-01-5

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 1 selection of destinations and waypoints, and including without limita-
 2 tion: lateral vehicle motion control via steering, longitudinal motion
 3 control via acceleration and deceleration, monitoring the driving envi-
 4 ronment via object and event detection, recognition, classification, and
 5 response preparation, object and event response execution, maneuver
 6 planning; and enhancing conspicuity via lighting, signaling, and gestur-
 7 ing;
 8 3. "DDT Fallback" shall mean the response by the person or human driv-
 9 er to either perform the DDT or achieve a minimal risk condition after
 10 occurrence of a DDT performance-relevant system failure or failures or
 11 upon operational design domain exit, or the response by an automated
 12 driving system to achieve minimal risk condition, given the same circum-
 13 stances;
 14 4. "Fully autonomous vehicle" shall mean a motor vehicle equipped with
 15 an automated driving system designed to function without a human driver
 16 as a level 4 or 5 system under SAE J3016;
 17 5. "Human driver" shall mean a natural person in the vehicle with a
 18 valid license to operate a motor vehicle who controls all or part of the
 19 dynamic driving task;
 20 6. "Minimal risk condition" shall mean a condition to which a person,
 21 human driver, or an ADS may bring a vehicle after performing the DDT
 22 Fallback in order to reduce the risk of a crash when a given trip cannot
 23 or should not be completed;
 24 7. "On-demand autonomous vehicle network" shall mean a transportation
 25 service network that uses a software application or other digital means
 26 to dispatch or otherwise enable the pre-arrangement of transportat