Driverless cars and trucks will be hitting the highways in increasing numbers over the next few years. A new set of guidelines indicates that the U.S. Department of Transportation doesn’t want to get in the way.
On March 18, a robot-driven Volvo operated by Uber hit and killed a pedestrian in Arizona.
Federal driverless vehicle guidelines have been issued on a roughly annual basis since 2016, with a strong emphasis on “voluntary guidance.” The federal government sets safety standards and the states are in charge of licensing. In California the Department of Motor Vehicles has established rules for driverless deployment that include insurance requirements as well as requirements that local safety officials be informed when robot cars are operating in their area.
The biggest change in the new set of guidelines, called Automated Vehicles 4.0, is a streamlined system of federal oversight. Without offering specifics, Chao said the new guidelines “unified AV efforts across 38 federal departments, independent agencies, commissions and executive offices of the president.”Driverless car technology is developing more slowly than Silicon Valley companies were predicting several years ago.
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