Carmakers Asking US To Slow Down On Self-Driving Rules

All over the world, carmakers are putting their own self-driving technology to the test. We are obviously many years away from self-driving cars being a standard, let alone road legal. There are multiple factors in play here, such as the technology itself, as well as the safety and legal hurdles and changes made to existing laws that would allow such vehicles from being on the road.

So you would think that carmakers would be on board with governments working quickly to come up with rules to help facilitate these changes, right? However that doesn’t really seem to be the case. According to a report from Reuters, it seems that an automaker trade association in the US is actually asking the US to slow down with their rule-making regarding self-driving vehicles.

According to Paul Scullion, safety manager at the Association of Global Automakers that represents carmakers such as Toyota, Nissan, and Hyundai, just to name a few, he says that the NHTSA “should not bind itself to arbitrary, self-imposed deadlines at the expense of robust and thoughtful policy analysis.” Instead he says that the NHTSA “should instead consider the development incrementally.”

However NHTSA administrator Mark Rosekind responded by saying that they need to come up with these rules quickly as carmakers such as Tesla and their autopilot feature are examples of how “people are going to just keep putting stuff out on the road with no guidance on how do we do this the right way.”

Tyler Lee
Categories: Transportation
Tags: Legal, Self-Driving Cars