Self-driving car makers must help first responders rescue people.
H.R. 10033 — AV Emergency Response Coordination Act · Filed by Kevin Mullin (D-CA) · Introduced Aug 3, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill tells self-driving car makers to write rescue guides. These guides must go to the government and be public. Self-driving car companies must run a phone line 24 hours a day. They must answer calls within 30 seconds. The government can tell self-driving cars to stay out of disaster areas for up to 72 hours.
Who it affects
First responders get guides on how to help people in self-driving cars. Regular people get safer rescues. Self-driving car makers must spend money to follow these rules.
One thing to notice
The bill makes rescue information public, which could show how self-driving cars work. Smaller car makers may spend more money than big ones to run a 24-hour phone line.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Aug 3, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Aug 3, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- first responders — Police, firefighters, and paramedics who arrive first at emergencies.
- self-driving cars — Cars that drive themselves without a human driver.
- disaster areas — Places where emergencies or accidents have happened.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (16,108 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-23.
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