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This bill — the Protecting Roadside First Responders Act — would make Move Over law education compliance a national highway safety priority under existing National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) programs. This would allow states to apply for grant funding to execute Move Over law awareness campaigns and equip vehicles with digital alert and crash avoidance technology.

This bill would also:

Require NHTSA to promulgate rules mandating crash avoidance technology on all new motor vehicles, within two years, including automatic emergency braking, forward collision warnings, and lane departure warnings.
Require all federal fleet vehicles to have crash avoidance technology (automatic emergency braking, forward collision warnings, and lane departure warnings) within five years.
Require all federal fleet vehicles used for emergency response activities to be equipped with digital alert technology within five years.
Require research on the efficacy of Move Over laws and related public awareness campaigns as well as recommendations on how to improve these efforts to prevent roadside deaths.

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Should the Feds Fund Efforts to Make Drivers Aware of ‘Move Over’ Laws?