The Fear Index
Rank 14 of 17
Self-driving vehicles
Vehicles driven by AI, such as robotaxis and self-driving trucks, endangering people on the road.
57
on the Fear Index
Bills6
Lobbying filings38
News761
Wikipedia12.4K
The receipts
12,403Wikipedia views on this fear in the last 30 days
761news articles about it in the last 30 days
6bills, resolutions, rules and orders cite it since January 2025, in 5 states
4new government controls written into those bills
38federal lobbying filings name it, past year
In their own words
The fear as each bill's official summary or text states it, and the controls the same bill would create.
“limit the use of fully autonomous vehicles in actual or predicted periods of dangerous road conditions”
SB 67, MontanaPassedNew agency powersMontana Department of Transportation“prohibits using an automated driving system to drive a commercial motor vehicle unless an individual who holds a commercial driver's license is in the vehicle”
HB 1286, ColoradoVetoedUse limits“utilizes autonomous vehicle technology from being operated on public highways unless a natural person holding a valid license”
S 7956, New YorkNot passedUse limits“monitors the vehicle's driving, and intervenes, if necessary, to avoid illegal or unsafe driving”
HB 25-1122, ColoradoVetoedUse limits“impact driverless vehicles have on safety”
HR 563, PennsylvaniaAdopted
What it's buying
The government controls written into the bills that cite this fear.
Who benefits
Agencies and officials these bills would hand new power, by number of bills.
- 1Montana Department of Transportation1bill
Everyone else lobbying
Companies, trade groups, think tanks, unions and other groups whose lobbying filings name this fear, past year.
- 1Waymo5 filings
- 2American Honda Motor Co.4 filings
- 3Zurich American Insurance Company4 filings
- 4National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies4 filings
- 5Toyota4 filings
- 6Qualcomm Incorporated3 filings
Money, bills and attention
Money on filings naming it
Bills citing it
Wikipedia views
Each dot is one bill. Sources: lobbying filings on LDA.gov that name this fear, the bills that cite it, and Wikipedia readership of its articles.
Latest on this fear
- Resolution2026-10-21Pennsylvania HR 563: A Resolution directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study and issue a report on the impact driverless vehicles have on safety… (Adopted)
- Lobbying filing2026-10-21American Property Casualty Insurance Association filed a lobbying report that mentions AI, $50K for the quarter across all its issues, naming H.R. 7128, S. 4395
- Lobbying filing2026-10-20National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies filed a lobbying report that mentions AI, $520K for the quarter across all its issues, naming H.R. 10362, H.R. 10519, H.R. 1734, H.R. 2770, H.R. 3460, H.R. 3775, H.R. 4142, H.R. 5227, H.R. 5388, H.R. 5784, H.R. 5885, H.R. 6304, H.R. 6875, H.R. 8037, H.R. 8094, H.R. 8623, H.R. 8664, H.R. 8819, H.R. 9352, H.R. 9363, H.R. 9619, S. 1269, S. 1290, S. 1378, S. 1638, S. 1798, S. 2177, S. 2528, S. 2750, S. 2937, S. 3108, S. 3339, S. 3354, S. 3557, S. 3957, S. 4069, S. 4307, S. 4743, S. 4916, S. 5061, S. 5417
- Lobbying filing2026-10-20American Honda Motor Co. filed a lobbying report that mentions AI, $520K for the quarter across all its issues, naming H.R. 3684, H.R. 5371, H.R. 8413, H.R. 8730, S. 1377, S. 4429
- Lobbying filing2026-10-20Government Employees Insurance Company filed a lobbying report that mentions AI, $100K for the quarter across all its issues, naming H.R. 2662, H.R. 5221, S. 2238
- Lobbying filing2026-10-20Zurich American Insurance Company filed a lobbying report that mentions AI, $550K for the quarter across all its issues, naming H.R. 1285, H.R. 469, H.R. 471, H.R. 643, H.R. 7128, H.R. 8800, H.R. 9340, S. 4395, S. 5028, S. 570, S. 985
The bills
The ones carrying the most controls, first.
- HB 1286, ColoradoVetoedUse limitsRead it on leg.colorado.gov
- S 7956, New YorkNot passedUse limitsRead it on nyassembly.gov
- HB 25-1122, ColoradoVetoedUse limitsRead it on leg.colorado.gov
- SB 67, MontanaPassedNew agency powersRead it on bills.legmt.gov
- HR 563, PennsylvaniaAdoptedRead it on palegis.us
- HB 1377, IndianaNot passedRead it on iga.in.gov