DRIVE to HALT Drunk Driving Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The DRIVE to HALT Drunk Driving Act adds a new motor vehicle safety section for drunk and impaired driving prevention. A covered manufacturer is one that made, sold, introduced, or imported more than 250,000 motor vehicles in the second most recent calendar year. Within 180 days, each covered manufacturer may not manufacture for sale, sell, offer for sale, introduce into interstate commerce, or import fewer than 10,000 passenger vehicles per year meeting the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety Subsystem Performance Specification Document and fewer than 10,000 passenger vehicles per year complying with sections 3.5.1 through 3.5.4.4 of Euro NCAP version 10.3 from December 2023. When Euro NCAP revises the driver-monitoring standard, the revised standard replaces the older one after 120 days unless the Secretary publishes notice, allows comment, and determines the revision does not meet motor vehicle safety needs.
Who Benefits and How
Passengers, drivers, pedestrians, and families benefit if impaired-driving prevention technology reduces alcohol-impaired or distracted driving crashes. Impairment-detection technology suppliers benefit from a required production floor for DADSS and driver-monitoring systems. State highway safety programs benefit if vehicle systems reduce impaired-driving injuries and enforcement burdens.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Covered vehicle manufacturers must integrate qualifying systems into at least 20,000 passenger vehicles per year across the two required technology categories. Importers of passenger vehicles from covered manufacturers must ensure compliance before import. NHTSA and Transportation Department staff must monitor compliance and decide whether revised Euro NCAP standards meet U.S. safety needs. Consumers may face vehicle-cost pass-through if compliance costs are embedded in prices.
Key Provisions
- Requires covered manufacturers to produce at least 10,000 passenger vehicles per year meeting DADSS alcohol-detection specifications.
- Requires covered manufacturers to produce at least 10,000 passenger vehicles per year meeting specified Euro NCAP driver-monitoring standards.
- Requires updated Euro NCAP standards to replace existing standards within 120 days unless the Secretary rejects them after notice and comment.
- Defines covered manufacturers by a 250,000-vehicle annual threshold.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires large passenger-vehicle manufacturers to produce at least 10,000 vehicles per year meeting DADSS impairment-detection specifications and 10,000 vehicles per year meeting specified European New Car Assessment Programme driver-monitoring standards within 180 days, with automatic incorporation of updated Euro NCAP standards unless the Transportation Secretary rejects them after notice and comment.
Key Policy Areas
Vehicle Safety, Transportation, Automotive Manufacturing
Primary Purpose
Requires large passenger-vehicle manufacturers to produce at least 10,000 vehicles per year meeting DADSS impairment-detection specifications and 10,000 vehicles per year meeting specified European New Car Assessment Programme driver-monitoring standards within 180 days, with automatic incorporation of updated Euro NCAP standards unless the Transportation Secretary rejects them after notice and comment.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Passenger vehicle occupants
- Pedestrians
- Impairment-detection technology suppliers
- State highway safety programs
Identified Costs
- Covered vehicle manufacturers
- Passenger vehicle importers
- NHTSA staff
- Consumers buying new vehicles
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Mrs. Dingell introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
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