The United States plans to rewrite the rules that prevent self-driving cars

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The United States plans to rewrite the rules that prevent self-driving cars







WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to revise safety rules that prohibit cars that drive themselves from roads without equipment such as steering wheels, pedals and mirrors, according to a document published Thursday. 

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) "intends to reconsider the need and adequacy of its current safety standards" as they apply to automated vehicles, the Department of Transportation said. I know. UU In an 80-page update of its principles called "Automated Vehicles 3.0." 

The department, as reported by Reuters on Thursday, revealed that the NHTSA wants to comment "on the proposed changes to particular safety standards to adapt to the automatic technologies of vehicles and the possibility of establishing exceptions to certain standards that are relevant only when human drivers are present. " 

The Secretary of Transportation of the United States, Elaine Chao, published the document at a department event. In the report, Chao said that self-driving cars have the potential to drastically reduce traffic accidents and deaths on the roads. But he added that "the public has legitimate concerns about the security and privacy of automated technology." 

Car manufacturers currently must comply with nearly 75 automobile safety standards, many of which were written on the assumption that a licensed driver will have control of the vehicle. 

In January, General Motors Co filed a petition requesting an exemption from the current rules for using vehicles without flyers and other human controls as part of a fleet of shared trips that it plans to deploy in 2019. 

NHTSA has not declared the GM request completed, a necessary step before it can decide on the merits. NHTSA said it plans to propose modernization procedures to follow when reviewing exemption requests. 

The Waymo unit of Alphabet Inc plans to launch an autonomous transportation service for the general public with no human driver behind the wheel in Arizona later this year. But unlike GM, Waymo vehicles will have human controls for the time being. 









FILE PHOTO: A self-management Jaguar I-PACE is photographed during its presentation by Waymo in the Manhattan district of the city of New York, USA. UU., March 27, 2018. REUTERS / Brendan McDermid 



In March, a driving car Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] The vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian, while the safety security driver was watching a video, police said. Uber suspended the tests immediately afterwards and some security advocates said the crash showed the system was not safe enough to be tested on public roads.    

NHTSA has increased its focus on driving cars, as the legislation in Congress on driving cars, which was approved by the US House of Representatives. UU In 2017, it has stalled. It has only a small chance of being approved in 2018, congressional advisers said. 

The report says that "the current legal authority of the NHTSA to establish safety standards for motor vehicles is flexible enough to accommodate the design and performance of different" automated vehicles. 

The Center for Auto Safety said NHTSA should require companies to "present evidence" that their automated driving technology is safe "before involuntarily involving humans in their tests." 

    GM said in a statement on Thursday that "legislation is still urgently needed" to allow "the full deployment of automatic driving vehicles." 

Automakers have warned that the NHTSA could take too long to rewrite the rules to allow widespread adoption of cars without human control. 

The department also said it "no longer recognizes the designations of ten automatic vehicle test fields" announced in January 2017. 

Congress named the sites, including the Michigan center visited by US President Donald Trump last year, to receive $ 60 million in grants "to finance demonstration projects that prove the feasibility and safety" of the vehicles that drive on their own. 

The Department of Transportation also announced that it will begin studying the workforce impacts of automated vehicles with the Labor, Commerce, and Health and Human Services departments. 









FILE PHOTO: The Secretary of Transportation of the USA. UU., Elaine Chao, speaks at the Summit of Concord in Manhattan, New York, USA. UU., September 24, 2018. REUTERS / Shannon Stapleton



The report also said that the Trump administration will not support calls to end human driving. The department "embraces the freedom of the open road, which includes the freedom for Americans to drive their own vehicles." 





Report of David Shepardson; Edition by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Grant McCool





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