PennDOT Issues Guidance for Highly Automated Vehicles
PennDOT has issued guidance to enhance safety oversight of highly automated vehicles. After discussions and meetings with the state's Autonomous Vehicle Policy Task Force and more than a dozen automated vehicle technology companies, PennDOT issued guidance to enhance...
Connected Cars Confront an Old Problem
Companies developing autonomous and connected-vehicle technology are bumping into an old problem concerning electronics: interference from other wireless devices. These signals, referred to as electromagnetic interference, go back to the early days of radio technology...
Self-driving Bill Critics Oppose Maneuver to Clear Senate
Safety and consumer advocates are urging senators to reject a parliamentary maneuver to secure passage for stalled legislation governing self-driving cars by attaching it to a must-pass reauthorization for the Federal Aviation Administration. The AV START Act, which...
Self-Driving Cars Don’t Need Rules Yet, U.S. Regulator S
It’s premature to regulate the self-driving vehicles being tested by companies such as General Motors Co. and Waymo LLC, the U.S. government’s top auto safety official said. “At this point the technology is so nascent I don’t think it is appropriate today to regulate...
U.S. Regulators Grappling with Self-driving Vehicle Security
In closed-door meetings last March, U.S. transportation regulators and others grappled with questions about whether police should have the power to disable self-driving cars and whether an automatic alert that a robo-taxi had been in a wreck could violate an...