Vehicles: advanced driver assistance system: crash reports.

Senator Gonzalez's legislation establishes new crash reporting requirements for manufacturers of vehicles equipped with Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in California. Under the measure, manufacturers must report crashes to the Department of Motor Vehicles within five days when their ADAS-equipped vehicles are involved in incidents resulting in fatalities, hospitalizations, airbag deployments, or impacts with vulnerable road users like pedestrians and cyclists.

The Department of Motor Vehicles would publish crash data on its website and share reports with federal transportation agencies every two months, while maintaining confidentiality of proprietary business information and personally identifiable details. Manufacturers face civil penalties of $27,874 per day for each violation of the reporting requirements. The reporting system mirrors specifications outlined in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Third Amended Standing General Order of June 2025.

The measure would take effect only if federal authorities repeal the current Standing General Order without replacing it with comparable crash reporting requirements. This conditional implementation ensures California maintains consistent safety oversight of partially automated vehicles while avoiding duplicate reporting mandates.