US Department of Transportation Updates Autonomous Car Rules (engadget.com) 35
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has released a report called "Preparing for the Future of Transportation: Automated Vehicles 3.0," which includes a new set of voluntary guidelines for automated driving systems. According to Engadget, the report "outlines additional safety principles, updates policy and offers guidance to state and local governments." From the report: The report notes that it's meant to be an update to, but not a replacement of, last year's guidance, and it encourages those developing automated driving systems to make public their Voluntary Safety Self-Assessments, which were introduced in last year's report. It also updates the list of best practices for state and local governments considering automated vehicle testing and operation. The agency also takes measures to clarify its policies and roles in regards to autonomous technology implementation. First, it's doing away with the Automated Vehicle Proving Grounds announced last year -- a list of 10 self-driving test sites that were eligible for federal funding. The DOT said that due to the "rapid increase in automated vehicle testing activities in many locations, there is no need for U.S. DOT to favor particular locations."
Additionally, the agency is working on updating language and regulations that it said unintentionally hamper automated vehicle progress. It will adapt its definitions of "driver" and "operator" to reflect that they no longer always refer to humans and can encompass automated systems. The DOT also announced a future notice of proposed rulemaking that will suggest exceptions to certain safety standards that apply only to human drivers -- such as pedals, brakes, mirrors and steering wheels -- for automated systems.
Additionally, the agency is working on updating language and regulations that it said unintentionally hamper automated vehicle progress. It will adapt its definitions of "driver" and "operator" to reflect that they no longer always refer to humans and can encompass automated systems. The DOT also announced a future notice of proposed rulemaking that will suggest exceptions to certain safety standards that apply only to human drivers -- such as pedals, brakes, mirrors and steering wheels -- for automated systems.
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Usually, banned cars will remain banned. This is an exciting development for the getting at least the legal roadblocks (see what I did there?) out of the way for self-driving cars. I'm looking forward to seeing the 9.0 update from Tesla. Onramp to Offramp seems pretty cool. They need to recognize stop signs, red lights, and such too.
The speed of this progress is cool, and I'm glad the legal regulations seem not to be impeding the progress to much.
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Recap (Score:5, Funny)
Try real hard not to kill people. We're not exactly saying it's completely against the rules, but we really want you to try super hard not to kill anyone.
Coming soon: Liability hackers (Score:3, Insightful)
Because an accident in an self-driving car is a product design problem that could be highly lucrative legally, rather than a charge against one person's insurance, I predict that artificially creating accidents will become a hobby for scammers. People will dash into the street in front of one from between parked cars, hoping to just be grazed. They will make oddball turns at intersection, trying to fool SDC detection systems. They will exploit whatever edge cases they can find in marginal weather. They will play "fastest brakes in the West" at intersections, knowing that the law is totally un the side of the stopped car in rear-end collisions.
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Yes, but today’s stakes are small in comparison. If the target is an Evil Corporation, you can have Gloria Allred on your side, grandstanding for the media and going after a verdict in the billions. It will be like this summer’s story of the Glyphosate scammer.
robbing self driving trucks as well! (Score:2)
robbing self driving trucks as well!
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robbing self driving trucks as well!
Or just simply be highwaymen and rob the people inside the self-driving cars who can't escape using the car because the safety features keep you from driving over something
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I'll have no end of amusement as I confuse the crap out of shitty self-driving cars that can't tell the difference between a human with a stop-sign shirt on, and an actual stop-sign.
Thank you for re-affirming why people in cars don't like to share the road with people on bikes.
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So... you're thinking the legal system of the future will side with regular pedestrians against large corporations operating driver-less cars and their large insurance companies?
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It will, just like the legal system of the present. Convince a jury of cabbageheads that soda pop is a toxin - which like anything else, it is in sufficiently large quantities - and Joseph Blow gets an award in the billions. Not that his purported case of heartburn is worth that much, you see, but you gotta send the Evil Corporation a “message.”
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The dumber the idea it is, the more people will try it.
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What's he blubbing about this time? Consumer reports rating his people killing software as less good than GM's? TSLA down to 282
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.... [thetruthaboutcars.com]
TEETH (Score:2)
Put me down as happy as hell (Score:2)