Self-driving car bill drafts silent on maker accountability (1)
(Updates throughout with controversy over lawsuits.) House and Senate lawmakers moved a step closer to drawing up driverless car...
Read MoreThe self driving and sharing economy: How regulation may drive the transportation revolution in 2020 and beyond
The year 2020 may be the one that redefines your ride. Less than a decade ago, typing the words Uber or Lyft into an internet search or...
Read MoreGroups call on U.S. lawmakers to develop ‘meaningful legislation’ for AVs
Officials from trade groups representing automakers and tech companies, as well as consumer and vehicle safety, called on Congress to...
Read MoreWe still can’t agree how to regulate self-driving cars
There was a sense of déjà vu on Capitol Hill today as a House panel convened yet another hearing on how to best regulate autonomous...
Read MoreUS House panel will discuss self-driving cars next week
On February 11th, a House panel will hold a hearing that could help shape the future of self-driving vehicles in the US. The Consumer...
Read MoreThe federal government just granted its first driverless car exemption
Nuro, the self-driving startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, has a new delivery robot. The R2 is the company’s second-generation...
Read MoreWaymo workers complain about cuts to benefits and needles in self-driving cars
At first, when Waymo told the workers at its Chandler, Arizona facility last year that they would be vendors instead of contractors, the...
Read MoreDubai’s RTA unveils legislation governing autonomous vehicle trials
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced legislation enacted to streamline the trial runs of autonomous vehicles in...
Read MoreAV 4.0: Reasonable For AV, but perhaps missing the boat on ADAS regulation
Last week at CES, Secretary Elaine L. Chao introduced the latest guidance from the U.S. Department of Transportation on the topic of...
Read MoreUS pledges to modernize or eliminate outdated regulations to support autonomous vehicles
The United States government is finally getting serious about autonomous vehicles as Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has used CES to...
Read MoreHorses, equine law and the future of the autonomous vehicle legal framework
Ever since Bridget Driscoll became the first person hit and killed by an automobile more than 120 years ago, there has been a need to...
Read MoreReacting to the proposals in the U.S. House’s Autonomous Vehicle Bill
While impeachment is dominating the headlines, Forbes reports that Congress is working on a new Autonomous Vehicle Bill behind the scenes....
Read MoreEU regulations make Tesla Smart Summon “nearly useless”
EU regulations are making Tesla’s Smart Summon nearly useless, for the time being. Stéphane Rodrigues shares a tweet with us in which he...
Read MoreApple signs EU complaint decrying FRAND patent abuse related to autonomous cars
A group of 27 companies including BMW, Cisco, Daimler, Dell, Ford, Lenovo and others informed the European Union’s antitrust...
Read MoreWho’s regulating self-driving cars? Often, no one
A few hundred self-driving cars are undergoing testing on American roads today, using advanced technology to journey down highways, stop...
Read MoreCongressional policymakers drafting autonomous vehicles bill
WASHINGTON — Long-awaited legislation that would set a federal regulatory framework for automated vehicles is being drafted by...
Read MoreU.S. Senate to hold November 20 hearing on testing, deployment of self-driving cars
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee will hold a Nov. 20 hearing on the testing and deployment of self-driving...
Read MoreDoes every car need a steering wheel and seat belts? A tech lawyer says no
When I first met Silicon Valley lawyer David Estrada in 2014, he was an executive at Lyft Inc. who was tussling with New York City...
Read MoreToronto City Council approves comprehensive automated vehicles plan
Toronto City Council has approved the Automated Vehicles (AV) Tactical Plan and Readiness 2022 report. The plan aims to make Toronto “AV...
Read MoreCongress drafts first sections of new, bipartisan autonomous vehicle bill
In the nation’s capital, it is a rare sight for all the players in an industry, large and small, to come together and ask for new...
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