17.—(1) The specified person for an approved trial or approved special use must ensure that every autonomous motor vehicle used in the approved trial or approved special use is installed with a data recorder that is capable of storing information when the vehicle is being used.
(2) The specified person for an approved trial or approved special use must ensure that the data recorder is in operation at all times when any autonomous motor vehicle is used in the approved trial or approved special use, whether or not the autonomous system of the vehicle is activated.
(3) The specified person for an approved trial or approved special use must ensure that data collected from the data recorder in an autonomous motor vehicle is in a digital format specified by the Authority, and kept for at least 3 years from the date of the recording, despite such period extending beyond the validity period of the authorisation.
(4) The specified person for an approved trial or approved special use must ensure that the data recorder installed in an autonomous motor vehicle used in the approved trial or approved special use is able to capture the following information:
(a)
date and time stamp;
(b)
vehicle locations in latitude and longitude (with the data recorder operating at a frequency of at least 2 Hz);
(c)
speed of the vehicle (with the data recorder operating at a frequency of at least 2 Hz);
(d)
the status of the vehicle, including whether the vehicle is operating manually, in autonomous mode, manual autonomous mode or in teleoperation mode;
(e)
operator override history in terms of override type during the autonomous mode;
(f)
sensor data;
(g)
camera or video footage captured by —
(i)
an internal facing camera (capturing any person in the vehicle, steering wheel and partial part of front windscreen); and
(ii)
an external front and rear facing camera.
(5) The specified person for an approved trial or approved special use must ensure that any information that is captured by a data recorder installed in an autonomous motor vehicle used in an approved trial or approved special use is not edited.
(6) The specified person for an approved trial or approved special use must, if required by the Authority by written notice —
(a)
relay data captured by the data recorder to the Authority, including information on a real‑time basis, in a format readable by the Authority; and
(b)
give a copy of any data recorded in a data recorder to the Authority for the purposes of carrying out any investigations, inspections or audits.
(7) A specified person who contravenes paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4) or (6) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding $2,000.
(8) A specified person who contravenes paragraph (5) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000.