Friday, October 21, 2016

Third Hand: Reports of Pesky Attitude at California Hearing

Darn! I did not attend or live stream the public meeting this week to discuss the proposed California driverless regulations, so this post just has links to reports from others. Look at the reports because the fingerprints of the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets is all over the autonomous vehicle industry's issues with the proposed California regulations. David Strickland, the sole person at the coalition is an experienced player and former administrator of the NHTSA.

In-depth articles

GovTech.com 

Automotive news 

Quick reads 

Endgadget

Reuters 

ArsTechnica

My two cents

I just want to say "I told you so," on some points of contention, such as the role that California has proposed for municipalities. I hope that the companies involved do not make the serious error of opposing any and all reporting requirements and regulation.

I personally like the black box/data recorder requirement. 

Significant issues under the proposed rules are trade secrets becoming publicly-available information, role of municipalities, and delays inherent for technology rollouts. 

Not that I disagree, just that there is a positive role for devil's advocates to be playing in terms of the California proposed rules.

Back to Strickland

The Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets is growing its website by posting a small library of driverless studies and reports. Testimony by David Strickland at public meetings and other venues is also posted there.

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