Category Archives: self driving cars

5 Issues Tech Companies have with Driverless Car Regulations and Laws

California is revising its driverless car regulations. Read the proposed regulations. 

California’s proposed driverless car regulations prompted the following concerns:

  • elimination of language that holds the driverless car manufacturer liable for any crash its vehicle causes on a public road.
  • allow paying riders in test cars
  • rules should also cover the testing of freight trucks
  • rules should be expanded with protections for proprietary information
  • remove a requirement that data recorders…

TREND. Data Security Standards for Motor Vehicles. Self Driving Cars. Autonomous Vehicles.

Are there data security regulations on cars?  Not so much

Is there any group proposing regulations? Yes, National Institute of Standards and Technology, a nonregulatory agency under the Department of Commerce

The Hill | Cyber official: Feds, companies need better dialogue on security of self-driving cars

State Legalizes Self Driving Cars in its Budget. 3 Key Points.

State: New York

How did New York manage to legalize self driving cars in a budget:

  • waives the prohibition on driverless cars
  • allows a 1 year testing program of self-driving and self-parking vehicles
  • requires direct supervision of the New York State Police
  • minimum of $5 million in insurance coverage
  • state motor vehicle commissioner to submit a study by June 1, 2018, focusing on:
    • safety
    • traffic control
    • traffic enforcement
    • other impacts of autonomous vehicle testing

The Governor…

Local Government Trend. Self Driving Car Initiative. 3 Pieces of Intel to Know Now.

  • Portland launched an inititiative to bring self driving cars to its fine city
  • The mayor says it will lower traffic fatalities and improve congrestion
  • Local streets must be regulated by local agencies that know the streets best.

Portland Bureau of Transportation | Portland Launches Smart Autonomous Vehicles Initiative (SAVI)

KATU | Portland launches self-driving car initiative, wants pilot program by end of year

Business Trend. Meet Policy Trend. Self Driving Car Crash. 2 Lessons.

  • The statement from police said the car’s view was blocked. 
    • Don’t self driving cars use sensors? Can you block the radar or sonor or whatever it might use?
    • How do rules and laws address blind spots in self driving cars?
  • The intersection was one of “the hardest decision making” for self driving cars
    • a witness said the self driving car sped up to beat the light
    • how can rules or laws handle these hard driving decisions?

Wallstreet Journal | Uber Self-Driving Car Crash Detailed in Police…

Lege Trend. All Self Driving Cars Must Be Zero Emissions. Also Known As–Can a Snail Move Faster than Zero Emission Cars?

Why does California need all self driving cars to be zero emissions?  California must cut greenhouse gases 40% by 2030

A handy side effect of a bill like this? to help the zero emmission car industry, whose sales have flatlined at 3% of market share in California 

Is this just  a California thing? No, Massachusettes is proposing the same

The Recorder | Calif. Lawmaker Pushes Zero-Emission Driverless Vehicles

Caliornia SB 802 (2017)

What does Insurance look like for Driverless Cars?

What data is necessary for insurance rates for driverless cars? testimony from State Farm to the California Senate Insurnace Committee: Carriers need “data that shows driverless-car technology “actually does what it advertises it’s doing.”

What entities oppose the release of driverless car data?  car manufacturers that fear the release, potentially through a hack, of trade secrets

The Recorder | Insurance Carriers Say Driverless Car Data Is Key to Rates

Regulatory Trend. Self Driving Cars. Golden State Moves Rules for Fully Autonomous Vehicles. Read the Rules.

State: California

Newly posted rules are business friendly. Consumer advocates not as pleased. Here’s what the new rules would do:

  • Removes provision that companies  test autonomous vehicles for 1 year to fully deploy
  • Eases accident and autonomous vehicle-disengagement reporting requirements
  • No requirement for city approval for testing
  • Cities will have to be notified and companies will have to coordinate with cities

California’s March 2017 Autonomous Vehicle Rules Proposal

The Recorder…