Magnus White Cyclist Safety Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Magnus White Cyclist Safety Act updates automatic emergency braking standards for vulnerable road users. Within three years, the Transportation Secretary must issue a final rule establishing minimum performance standards for automatic emergency braking systems installed in new covered vehicles. Covered vehicles include passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles, and trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less. The standards must require AEB systems to function in daylight and low light, meet maximum activation speed thresholds, and detect and respond to vulnerable road users, including across the range of colors and complexions presented by skin, clothing, and protective gear. Vulnerable road users include bicyclists, motorcyclists, and other cyclists. Required compliance must begin no later than two model years after the model year in which the final rule is issued.
Who Benefits and How
Bicyclists benefit from AEB standards that must detect vulnerable road users rather than only vehicles. Pedestrians and other vulnerable road users benefit from low-light and color-range detection requirements. Families of crash victims benefit from a safety rule named for cyclist Magnus White and aimed at preventing similar crashes. Vehicle safety advocates benefit from a concrete deadline for AEB performance standards.
Who Bears the Burden and How
NHTSA rulemaking staff must write the final rule within three years and set the compliance date. Automakers must design or procure AEB systems that meet the vulnerable-road-user detection standard. AEB sensor suppliers must improve low-light, speed-threshold, and diverse-color detection capabilities. Vehicle buyers may face higher costs if compliance raises equipment costs.
Key Provisions
- Requires a final rule on AEB minimum performance standards within three years.
- Requires covered vehicles to detect and respond to vulnerable road users.
- Requires AEB systems to work in daylight and low light conditions.
- Requires detection across skin, clothing, and protective-gear colors and complexions.
- Requires compliance no later than two model years after the final-rule model year.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the Transportation Secretary to issue, within three years, minimum performance standards for automatic emergency braking systems in new passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles, and light trucks so they work in daylight and low light, meet maximum activation-speed thresholds, and detect vulnerable road users across skin, clothing, and protective-gear colors, with compliance due within two model years after the rule.
Key Policy Areas
Vehicle Safety, Cyclist Safety, Transportation
Primary Purpose
Requires the Transportation Secretary to issue, within three years, minimum performance standards for automatic emergency braking systems in new passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles, and light trucks so they work in daylight and low light, meet maximum activation-speed thresholds, and detect vulnerable road users across skin, clothing, and protective-gear colors, with compliance due within two model years after the rule.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- Bicyclists
- Vulnerable road users
- Families of crash victims
- Vehicle safety advocates
Identified Costs
- NHTSA rulemaking staff
- Automakers
- AEB sensor suppliers
- Vehicle buyers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Mr. Neguse (for himself, Ms. Norton, and Ms. Titus) introduced …
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in …
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Bicyclists, Vehicle safety advocates, Vulnerable road users
AEB sensor suppliers, Automakers
Positive-direction: AEB sensor suppliers
Negative-direction: Automakers
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
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