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OMB Control No: 2127-0723	ICR Reference No: 201801-2127-002
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201612-2127-001
Agency/Subagency: DOT/NHTSA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved with change	Conclusion Date: 05/09/2018
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 01/04/2018
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	05/31/2021	36 Months From Approved	08/31/2018
Responses	60	0	90
Time Burden (Hours)	86,100	0	136,050
Cost Burden (Dollars)	8,610,000	0	16,305,000

Abstract: The purpose of Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety is to support the automotive industry, the States, and other key stakeholders as they consider and design best practices relative to the testing and deployment of automated vehicle technologies. Section 1 of ADS 2.0, Voluntary Guidance for Automated Driving Systems, contains 12 priority safety design elements. These elements were selected base on research conducted by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) universities, and NHTSA. Each element contains safety goals and approaches that could be used to achieve those safety goals. Entities are encouraged to consider each process for assessment, testing, and validation of the various elements. As automated driving technologies evolve at a rapid pace, no single standard exists by which an entity’s methods of considering a safety design element can be measured. Each entity is free to be creative and innovative when developing the best method for its system to appropriately mitigate the safety risks associated with their approach. To assist NHTSA and the public in understanding how safety is being considered by manufacturers and other entities developing and testing ADSs, NHTSA encourages documentation, recordkeeping, and disclosures that aid in that mission. The burden estimates contained in this notice are based on the Agency’s present understanding of the ADS market and the time associated with generating a self-assessment and voluntarily making a summary of that self-assessment public. As of November 16, 2017, there are 45 manufacturers that have registered with the State of California as licensed entities capable of testing automated systems. NHTSA expects that this number will continue to grow to 60 manufacturers, taking into account the addition of new entrants, and the fact that that many entities have already begun testing of automated vehicles and thus already included in this figure. The Agency expects much of the work associated with consideration of the safety element in the Voluntary Guidance to be an extension of good and safe engineering practices already in place. It therefore believes that manufacturers and other entities will have access to all the information needed to craft a Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment that discusses how the safety elements were considered and if they choose, release a summary of that assessment publicly. Of the manufacturers and other entities who voluntarily disclose this information, NHTSA anticipates that most manufacturers and other entities will post the disclosures online. This information collection revision takes into account the Voluntary Guidance’s applicability to Level 3-5 systems only, thus removing any burden associated with Level 2 systems that were included in the previous PRA. Additional changes include the removal of three safety elements from the Voluntary Guidance: Ethical Considerations, Privacy, and Registration and Certification. The Data Sharing aspect was also removed from the Data Collection safety element.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 49 USC 30101 Name of Law: Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	82 FR 43450	09/15/2017
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	82 FR 60273	12/19/2017
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? Yes

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 1

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	60	90	-30
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	86,100	136,050	-49,950
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	8,610,000	16,305,000	-7,695,000

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Reduction Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Short Statement: This is a program change to the existing request. The previous estimate, provided in the 60-day Federal Register Notice incorporated the addition of new entrants for testing and deployment of ADS, as indicated by the number of entities registered to test in the state of California. At the time, on August 30, 2017, 39 entities were registered which NHTSA then estimated to increase for new entrants resulting in an estimated 50 respondents per year. Further adjustments of burden hours from the January 2017-approved collection are a result of the following changes to the Voluntary Guidance: reducing the number of priority safety design elements for consideration from 15 to 12, removing data sharing from the data element in the Voluntary Guidance, and limiting the scope to SAE system levels 3-5 rather than levels 2-5. By limiting the scope and safety elements in the Voluntary Guidance, the estimated annual burden for an entity to consider the safety elements in the Voluntary Guidance was reduced from an estimated 1,630 hours per entity (plus an additional 20 hours for select entities) to 835 hours. The change in burden hours for an entity per year with relation to the VSSA has been reduced to 600 hours from 1,380 hours – based largely on the limiting of scope of ADS level. Thus total burden hours are now estimated at 1,435 (835 hours + 600 hours). From the 60-day Federal Register notice published on September 15, 2017 to the 30-day Federal Register notice, an additional six entities registered to test ADSs in California. Thus, NHTSA has further increased the estimated number of respondents per year to 60. NHTSA estimates the total burden associated with conforming with the documentation and disclosure recommendations contained in the Voluntary Guidance would be 1,435 hours per manufacturer or entity per year. The estimated cost for following this Voluntary Guidance is $100 per hour. Therefore, the total annual cost is estimated to be $8,610,000 (1,435 hours x 60 respondents x $100/hour).

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $3,000

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Debbie Sweet 202 366-7179

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