The purpose of Automated Driving
Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety is to support the automotive
industry, the States, and other key stakeholders as they consider
and design best practices relative to the testing and deployment of
automated vehicle technologies. Section 1 of ADS 2.0, Voluntary
Guidance for Automated Driving Systems, contains 12 priority safety
design elements. These elements were selected base on research
conducted by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) universities,
and NHTSA. Each element contains safety goals and approaches that
could be used to achieve those safety goals. Entities are
encouraged to consider each process for assessment, testing, and
validation of the various elements. As automated driving
technologies evolve at a rapid pace, no single standard exists by
which an entity’s methods of considering a safety design element
can be measured. Each entity is free to be creative and innovative
when developing the best method for its system to appropriately
mitigate the safety risks associated with their approach. To assist
NHTSA and the public in understanding how safety is being
considered by manufacturers and other entities developing and
testing ADSs, NHTSA encourages documentation, recordkeeping, and
disclosures that aid in that mission. The burden estimates
contained in this notice are based on the Agency’s present
understanding of the ADS market and the time associated with
generating a self-assessment and voluntarily making a summary of
that self-assessment public. As of November 16, 2017, there are 45
manufacturers that have registered with the State of California as
licensed entities capable of testing automated systems. NHTSA
expects that this number will continue to grow to 60 manufacturers,
taking into account the addition of new entrants, and the fact that
that many entities have already begun testing of automated vehicles
and thus already included in this figure. The Agency expects much
of the work associated with consideration of the safety element in
the Voluntary Guidance to be an extension of good and safe
engineering practices already in place. It therefore believes that
manufacturers and other entities will have access to all the
information needed to craft a Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment that
discusses how the safety elements were considered and if they
choose, release a summary of that assessment publicly. Of the
manufacturers and other entities who voluntarily disclose this
information, NHTSA anticipates that most manufacturers and other
entities will post the disclosures online. This information
collection revision takes into account the Voluntary Guidance’s
applicability to Level 3-5 systems only, thus removing any burden
associated with Level 2 systems that were included in the previous
PRA. Additional changes include the removal of three safety
elements from the Voluntary Guidance: Ethical Considerations,
Privacy, and Registration and Certification. The Data Sharing
aspect was also removed from the Data Collection safety
element.
US Code:
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USC 30101 Name of Law: Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966
This is a program change to the
existing request. The previous estimate, provided in the 60-day
Federal Register Notice incorporated the addition of new entrants
for testing and deployment of ADS, as indicated by the number of
entities registered to test in the state of California. At the
time, on August 30, 2017, 39 entities were registered which NHTSA
then estimated to increase for new entrants resulting in an
estimated 50 respondents per year. Further adjustments of burden
hours from the January 2017-approved collection are a result of the
following changes to the Voluntary Guidance: reducing the number of
priority safety design elements for consideration from 15 to 12,
removing data sharing from the data element in the Voluntary
Guidance, and limiting the scope to SAE system levels 3-5 rather
than levels 2-5. By limiting the scope and safety elements in the
Voluntary Guidance, the estimated annual burden for an entity to
consider the safety elements in the Voluntary Guidance was reduced
from an estimated 1,630 hours per entity (plus an additional 20
hours for select entities) to 835 hours. The change in burden hours
for an entity per year with relation to the VSSA has been reduced
to 600 hours from 1,380 hours – based largely on the limiting of
scope of ADS level. Thus total burden hours are now estimated at
1,435 (835 hours + 600 hours). From the 60-day Federal Register
notice published on September 15, 2017 to the 30-day Federal
Register notice, an additional six entities registered to test ADSs
in California. Thus, NHTSA has further increased the estimated
number of respondents per year to 60. NHTSA estimates the total
burden associated with conforming with the documentation and
disclosure recommendations contained in the Voluntary Guidance
would be 1,435 hours per manufacturer or entity per year. The
estimated cost for following this Voluntary Guidance is $100 per
hour. Therefore, the total annual cost is estimated to be
$8,610,000 (1,435 hours x 60 respondents x $100/hour).
$3,000
No
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Debbie Sweet 202
366-7179
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Guidance.pdf
PRA Part A 050418_.docx
Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety