Bill Text: NY S07758 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7758 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits any motor vehicle with a manufacturers' gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand one pounds or more which utilizes autonomous vehicle technology from being operated on public highways unless a natural person holding a valid license for the operation of the motor vehicle's class is present within such vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S07758 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07758-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7758

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    November 15, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
          human safety operators for certain autonomous vehicles

          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  section 393-b to read as follows:
     3    §  393-b.  Human safety operator required for certain autonomous vehi-
     4  cles.   No motor vehicle with  a  manufacturers'  gross  vehicle  weight
     5  rating  of  ten  thousand  one  pounds or more which utilizes autonomous
     6  vehicle technology shall be operated on public highways unless a natural
     7  person holding a valid license for the operation of the motor  vehicle's
     8  class  is  present within such vehicle. As used in this section, "auton-
     9  omous vehicle technology" shall mean the hardware and software that  are
    10  collectively  capable  of  performing part or all of the dynamic driving
    11  task on a sustained basis, and the term  "dynamic  driving  task"  shall
    12  mean all of the real-time operational and tactical functions required to
    13  operate  a vehicle in on-road traffic, excluding the strategic functions
    14  such as trip scheduling and selection of destinations and waypoints.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect upon the adoption by the  state  of  a
    16  law  permitting  the  operation  of  motor vehicles utilizing autonomous
    17  vehicle technology on public highways without requiring a natural person
    18  holding a valid license for the operation of the motor  vehicle's  class
    19  to  be  present  within  such vehicle; provided that the commissioner of
    20  motor vehicles shall notify the  legislative  bill  drafting  commission
    21  upon the occurrence of the enactment of such state law in order that the
    22  commission  may  maintain  an accurate and timely effective data base of
    23  the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of
    24  effecting the provisions of  section  44  of  the  legislative  law  and
    25  section 70-b of the public officers law.

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