California Code of Regulations
Title 13 - Motor Vehicles
Division 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Chapter 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Article 3.7 - Testing of Autonomous Vehicles
Section 227.50 - Reporting Disengagement of Autonomous Mode
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
(a) Upon receipt of a Manufacturer's Testing Permit or a Manufacturer's Testing Permit -- Driverless Vehicles, a manufacturer shall commence retaining data related to the disengagement of the autonomous mode. For the purposes of this section, "disengagement" means a deactivation of the autonomous mode when a failure of the autonomous technology is detected or when the safe operation of the vehicle requires that the autonomous vehicle test driver disengage the autonomous mode and take immediate manual control of the vehicle, or in the case of driverless vehicles, when the safety of the vehicle, the occupants of the vehicle, or the public requires that the autonomous technology be deactivated.
(b) Every manufacturer authorized under this article to test autonomous vehicles on public roads shall prepare and submit to the department an annual report summarizing the information compiled pursuant to subsection (a) by January 1st, of each year.
(c) The annual report shall be submitted to the department on the Annual Report of Autonomous Vehicle Disengagements, form OL 311R (Rev. 7/2020), which is hereby incorporated by reference.
1. New
section filed 5-19-2014; operative 9-16-2014 pursuant to Vehicle Code section
38750(f)
(Register 2014, No. 21).
2. Renumbering of former section
227.50 to section
227.54 and renumbering and
amendment of former section
227.46 to section
227.50 filed 2-26-2018; operative
4-1-2018 (Register 2018, No. 9).
3. Change without regulatory effect
amending form OL 311R, Annual Report of Autonomous Vehicle Disengagements
(incorporated by reference) and amending subsection (c) filed 4-15-2021
pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2021, No. 16).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 1651 and 38750, Vehicle Code. Reference: Section 38750, Vehicle Code.