---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 30129"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "30129"
heading: "Crash avoidance technology"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/30129"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Motor Vehicle and Driver Programs"
  - "Part A — General"
  - "Chapter 301 — Motor Vehicle Safety"
  - "Subchapter II — Standards and Compliance"
---

# §30129. Crash avoidance technology

- (a) **In General.—** The Secretary of Transportation shall promulgate a rule—
  - (1) to establish minimum performance standards with respect to [crash avoidance](/usc/49/32301.md?p=1) technology; and
  - (2) to require that all [passenger motor vehicles](/usc/49/32101.md?p=10) manufactured for sale in the [United States](/usc/49/31301.md?p=15) on or after the compliance date described in [subsection (b)](#b) shall be equipped with—
    - (A) a forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking system that—
      - (i) alerts the driver if—
        - (I) the distance to a vehicle ahead or an object in the path of travel ahead is closing too quickly; and
        - (II) a collision is imminent; and
      - (ii) automatically applies the brakes if the driver fails to do so; and
    - (B) a lane departure warning and lane-keeping assist system that—
      - (i) warns the driver to maintain the lane of travel; and
      - (ii) corrects the course of travel if the driver fails to do so.
- (b) **Compliance Date.—** The Secretary of Transportation shall determine the appropriate effective date, and any phasing-in of requirements, of the final rule promulgated pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–58, div. B, title IV, § 24208(a), Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 823.)