OMB Approves NHTSA Automated Driving System ICR

Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had approved an information collection request (ICR) revision from the DOT’s National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) on “Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety”. The revised burden estimate shows a decrease in the number of reports and the number of expected burden hours.

The table below shows the change in the burden estimate.

 

NHTSA reported that:

“The currently approved collection estimated 20 respondents per year, each responding once in that year. The burden associated with disclosure recommendations via a VSSA would be 600 hours per respondent. The annual burden associated with the information collection was calculated as 12,000 hours and $1,168,320 in labor costs. The revisions estimate four entities will publish a VSSA every year and will publish only once in the three-year period. This decrease is a result of review of the submissions for the currently approved collection and a review of the entities currently in the Automated Driving System industry.”