Yes, I will be writing about the NHTSA guidelines VERY soon. But first I have to finish reading the long, long document and I have a whole job and life outside of my obsession with driverless transportation
The design is at fault
The German transport minister is proposing - for semi-autonomous cars a/k/a Tesla - that manufacturers NOT drivers be liable when the driver fails to pay attention, say texting a grocery list instead of watching the road. The implicit argument goes that this situation is completely foreseeable given the monotonous nature of watching the road when the self-driving/autopilot technology is almost completely reliable.
The German proposal would also place completely driverless operation of vehicles on equal footing with conventional human driving. Driverless would be allowed; just follow applicable laws and regulations.
Other big news in the last few days was the green light a Michigan House panel gave to the driverless bill. If the Michigan Senate's unanimous approval is any indication, the bill is destined for passage. Go here for highlights of the bill.
Hey, driverless; get over here
I'm imagining the hail of a driverless taxi-transit vehicle in my hometown of Brooklyn. Except wait, an idea being floated is not for what I consider the real Brooklyn, but rather for transformed and gentrified neighborhoods (translation: expensive) along the L train. L service will be suspended for quite a while, starting in 2019, and a Daily News opinion piece suggests an expansive driverless pilot program. So the suggestion is to transform the dreaded L-pocalyse into the L-AutonomousMobilility opportunity.
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