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Where D.C. stakeholders stood on the autonomous vehicle bill — a combined analysis of every witness and written submission, who supported it, who opposed it, and what they asked the Council to change.

Covers testimony submitted for the record at the July 13, 2026 Committee on Transportation & the Environment hearing on B26-0684. Positions shown are IMI’s coding of each witness’s stated position, not the witnesses’ own framing.

Where DC stakeholders stood on the autonomous-vehicle bill

Combined analysis of live and written testimony on B26-0684, the “Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Authorization Amendment Act of 2026” · Council of the District of Columbia, Committee on Transportation & the Environment · July 13, 2026

Support and opposition

The coalition, by stakeholder group

Each bar is one stakeholder group, its length the number of witnesses and submitters in it, split by position on the bill. Groups run from most to least supportive. Disability advocates, business and tech groups anchored support; organized labor was the opposition core; the AV and rideshare companies were themselves split. The large individual-resident bar reflects a heavy public write-in, mostly in favor.

What stakeholders asked for

The most common policy asks across all testimony, counted by the number of distinct stakeholders raising each. Beyond simply passing the bill, the heaviest demands were for stronger safety and crash-data requirements, changes to the permitting pace and fleet caps, accessibility mandates, and more data reporting and DDOT oversight. Hover for the stakeholder-group breakdown.

What the live hearing spent its time on

For reference: share of spoken discussion at the July 13 hearing by issue (estimated from transcript volume). This reflects the live hearing only; the written record above broadens the picture.

Every witness and submitter

Witness	Affiliation	Group	Position	Source	Asks

How this was built

Each witness and written submission is coded on a five-point scale from their live and/or written testimony; where someone did both, the written submission governs. Policy asks are drawn from the testimony text, paraphrased and grouped into themes. The individual-resident group includes a large volume of short public letters.

Data source

Council of the District of Columbia, Committee on Transportation & the Environment — live hearing captions and written testimony submitted for the record, July 13, 2026.

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