Comment #1 today, which is NHTSA comment #55: This guy has no trust in the automobile companies. He feels the industry is already basically self-interested and self-regulated and wishes to continue down that road.
Comment #2 today, which is NHTSA comment #56: This comment is from the Alliance for Safer Cities (ASC). ASC compares the auto industry to the self-regulating airport security industry prior to 9/11. That's a pretty strong statement and, perhaps, not apt. (Does this guy trust the minimum wage TSA folks? Obviously, he has never taken El Al.) ASC has two points: The industry should not be trusted to regulate itself and we need to prevent terrorists from getting hold of driverless vehicles.
Considering that these comments are so concerned with deaths and injuries, one would think they would be more welcoming of driverless technology. That said, neither offers a framework for balancing innovation, safety, and standards.
As for evildoers around the world who are willing to blow themselves up: There are rental cars and carshare vehicles available today and every day of the week if they want to perpetrate their dastardly deeds. Driverless vehicles will not offer any new opportunity - except for the possibility of hacking into a fleet (I'm thinking of adventure film crashes all over the place).
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