Self-Driving Cars Look, Feel Is Clearer through Final U.S. Safety Rules Clifford Atiyeh
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a final set of regulations affecting autonomous cars.
These rules were first promulgated last March and carry over from work started in the Obama administration.
Most interesting, perhaps, is that there are new terms for the driver s seat and the steering wheel on self-driving vehicles.
Automakers know exactly how safe their self-driving cars should be now that the U.S. government has updated its decades-old regulations to include vehicles without steering wheels, pedals, or seats. In short, any light-duty vehicle designed to carry people and drive itself has to protect those people the same way that every other vehicle does.
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigates, reports on and determines the probable causes of transportation accidents in all modes of transportation, from planes, trains and automobiles, to pipelines, ships and other accidents of a catastrophic or recurring nature, such as commercial space transportation accidents and accidents involving hazardous materials.
1 When the NTSB identifies safety issues, it can make safety recommendations aimed at furthering its ultimate mission of preventing future accidents and reducing injuries from accidents that do occur.
Every two years, the NTSB publishes a Most Wanted List of safety improvements that the agency determines are important to preventing accidents, minimizing injuries and saving lives across all modes of transportation. On the eve of the Biden-Harris inauguration, Holland & Knight spoke with NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt about current agency safety priorit
The NHTSA is working on new rules that better acknowledge not all vehicles in our future will have passengers or drivers, and don't need the same features.
Owens Gifts Autonomous Drivers
The U.S. Department of Transportationâs National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today has issued a final rule, all 147 pages of it, designed to roll back numerous Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) and clarify what they termed as ambiguities in current occupant protection standards, for vehicles equipped with automated driving systems (ADS). These are specifically vehicles that are designed without traditional manual driver controls.
The rule amends several regulations regarding crashworthiness, in effect lessening safety standards for automated vehicles equipped without manual driver controls. The rule also exempts automated vehicles, be it a delivery van or service truck, designed never to carry any human occupants, including drivers, from crashworthiness standards. If it sounds like the automated vehicle could hit your car or truck and not be held liable, you’re getting the gist of some of the DOT-speak contain
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