Download NHTSA Standing General Order (SGO) crash report data to analyze ADAS/ADS incident trends
domain: nhtsa.gov · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Go to NHTSA's Standing General Order on Crash Reporting page and locate the current data-download section
Download the separate CSV files for ADS Incident Report Data, Level 2 ADAS Incident Report Data, and Other Incident Report Data
Load the accompanying SGO Data Element Definitions data dictionary to correctly interpret each column before analysis
Join or filter records by manufacturer, incident date, and narrative fields depending on your analysis goal
Re-download monthly, since NHTSA republishes updated cumulative files on a rolling monthly cadence rather than exposing a queryable API
Known gotchas
There is no REST API for SGO data — it is CSV-file download only, refreshed monthly, so any 'real-time' integration claim for this dataset is inaccurate
Report counts reflect manufacturer/operator self-reporting under the order's thresholds, not a complete census of all ADAS/ADS-involved crashes, so treat volumes as a lower bound
Redacted or narrative fields change between SGO amendment versions (the order has been amended multiple times), so schema can shift between file vintages
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