US regulators issued final rules on Thursday, eliminating the need for automated automakers to equip fully autonomous vehicles with manual driving controls to meet crash standards.
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US regulators issued final rules on Thursday, eliminating the need for automated automakers to equip fully autonomous vehicles with manual driving controls to meet crash standards. Automakers and tech companies have faced significant hurdles in deploying Automated Driving System (ADS) vehicles without human controls due to safety standards written decades ago that assume people are in control. Last month, General Motors Company and its self-driving technology unit Cruise petitioned the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for permission to build and deploy self-driving vehicles without human controls such as steering wheels or brake pedals Was.
The rules modify rules that assume that “there shall always be a driver’s seat, a steering wheel and accompanying steering column, or just a front outboard passenger seating position.”
“For vehicles designed to be driven solely by ADS, the manually operated driving controls are logistically unnecessary,” the agency said.
The new rules, which were first proposed in March 2020, emphasize that automated vehicles must offer the same level of protection as human-powered vehicles.
“As the driver changes from person to machine in ADS-equipped vehicles, the need to keep humans safe remains the same and must be integrated from the start,” said NHTSA Deputy Administrator Steven Cliffe.
The NHTSA rule states that children should not occupy what is traditionally known as the “driver’s” position, noting that the driver’s seating position was not designed to protect children in a crash. but if a child is in that seat, the car will not immediately need to stop the movement. NHTSA said that current regulations do not currently prohibit deploying automated vehicles as long as they have manual driving controls, and as it continues to consider changing other safety standards, manufacturers are still required to set their own standards. An exemption to sell vehicles equipped with ADS may be required to petition the NHTSA.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Karishma Singh)
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