News Technology 06 July 2018
Driverless cars face rudderless regs
Road safety researchers call for stronger rules for autonomous vehicle manufacturers, before public confidence in the tech is destroyed. Jeff Glorfeld reports.
The technology behind driverless cars and trucks is progressing rapidly, but government regulations to control their testing and deployment are lagging far behind and threaten to curtail their widespread adoption, says a report in the journal Science.
Writing from Washington DC, US, road safety researchers Joan Claybrook and Shaun Kildare say many American drivers are concerned about sharing the road with autonomous vehicles (AVs), and their trust in the technology is being tested by an increasing number of deadly high-profile crashes involving the driverless cars.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/driverless-cars-face-rudderless-regs
