For now, it's Google, Uber, Lyft, Ford, and Volvo as the founding and only members of the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets (SDCST), but I'm wondering if Lyft partner-GM is soon to follow, along with the rest of the car companies. The coalition wants the same set of standards and regulations across the US and it is emphasizing the death and injury visited upon this country in the thousands and thousands of human-caused crashes each year.
The coalition does not yet have a website, but it does have a leader. David Strickland, a former National Highway Traffic Safety Administration administrator and a current Google advisor, will act as the coalition's counsel and spokesman. No doubt, Mr. Strickland will be in attendance and speaking at the NHTSA hearing this morning at Stanford University.
No cabbies needed
Volvo will begin its Drive Me London program in 2017 with real families on real streets. I did that in Brooklyn and read to my kids en route. It was called the NYC subway. Okay, a bit different. Wait, Brooklyn was better. The Volvo program will only feature semi-autonomous vehicles, basically a Tesla equivalent.
And for your entertainment, this video from Honda, which will prompt thoughts of a tiny house on wheels and being a modern nomad in your own traveling home.
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