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The Driverless Commute: Is it still too soon for parking lot deployment? South Korea plans massive smart-road investment ahead of AVs; and European carmakers beginning to bristle at tough regs
Welcome again to the Driverless Commute, presented by Dentons, a digest clocking the most important technical, legal and regulatory developments shaping […]
The Driverless Commute: Autonomous Vehicles: US Legal and Regulatory Landscape
The Driverless Commute: NHTSA, FMCSA extend comment periods for amendments to regulations impacting AVs
Both the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) have extended the comment […]
The Driverless Commute in WardsAuto: Biggest Roadblock to Autonomous Vehicles Isn’t Technology
The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards need to be reworked or overhauled if autonomous vehicles are going to reach their […]
The Driverless Commute: Cities aren’t planning for AV deployment and that’s a problem; NHTSA is weighing rewrites of car and commercial vehicle rules; US lags global rivals over lack of national legislation
1. Urban (not)planning Cities were once highly compact and walkable places that blended residences and workplaces and where people commanded […]
The Driverless Commute: New Federal Autonomous Vehicle Rules on the Horizon
On Wednesday, May 22, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced […]
The Driverless Commute: Groups ask NHTSA to pump brakes on GM AV petition; USPS goes driverless; the last-ten-feet problem; and Cruise can make left turns in San Fran better than you
1. Public comment season Groups representing property and life insurance providers, car dealers and consumer safety advocates were among those […]
The Driverless Commute: GM’s driverless exemption petition advances, but key questions for industry remains; a driver’s test for driverless cars; and robo-race car to edge test
1. NHTSA advances GM’s FMVSS exemption bid. But we still don’t have answers on liability. The National Highway Traffic Safety […]
The Driverless Commute, presented by Dentons: How programmer bias will be reflected in AI platforms; a case for public investment in AV access; and Waymo, GM & Ford top new AV leaderboard
1. When an engineer’s implicit bias becomes a computer’s Can the machine learning algorithms that underpin the operation of autonomous […]