DRIVE to HALT Drunk Driving Act

New production rules for automakers

This bill would require large automakers to make and sell minimum numbers of impairment-prevention passenger vehicles each year. Starting not later than 180 days after enactment, each covered manufacturer would have to produce at least 10,000 passenger vehicles per year meeting the DADSS Subsystem Performance Specification and at least 10,000 passenger vehicles per year meeting sections 3.5.1–3.5.4.4 of Euro NCAP v10.3 (Dec 2023). A "covered manufacturer" would be any maker that, in the second-most-recent calendar year, made or imported more than 250,000 motor vehicles. If Euro NCAP revises the listed sections, the revised standard would replace the baseline within 120 days unless the Secretary of Transportation, after Federal Register notice and public comment, finds the revision does not meet motor vehicle safety needs. The new requirement would be treated as a motor vehicle safety standard, violations would be subject to existing civil penalties, and the rule would expire when the IIJA section 24220 rule becomes effective. Passenger motor vehicles would exclude commercial motor vehicles under 49 U.S.C. 31101.