Automobile and technology manufacturer Developers test and deploy Self -driving And advanced driver support features will no longer have to report many details and information about the Federal Government, according to a new frame released today by the US Department of Transport.
These moves are a benefit for self -driving car manufacturers and wider car technology, complaining that federal incidents reports are too heavy and redundant. But the new rules will limit the information available to the followers and research the autonomous means and the driver support features.
Government New orders The limit of one of the only sources of public data that we have about incidents related to level 2 systems, Mr. Sam Abuelsamid, the writer of the self -driving industry and is the Vice President of Marketing in Telemetry, a Michigan research company, refer to driver support features like drivers like. Tesla'S Completely self -driving (supervised)Then General engine' Super yachtAnd FordGreen journey. These incidents, he noted, only became more popular.
New rules allow companies to protect from some incidents, including automation version related to incidents and stories about accidents, with the reason that information contains secret business information. Developers drove themselves, such as Waymo and Zoox, there would be no need to report accidents including property damage under $ 1,000, if the case is not related to self -crashing or attacking a car or other object. .
And in one change, manufacturers of advanced driver support features, such as completely self -driving, must only report the accidents if they lead to death, hospitalization, deployment of airbags or attack on a “vulnerable road users, as a pedestrian or bicycle ride, but no longer have to report on the accident.
William Wallace, who directs the safety campaign for consumer reports. “It was a big engraving.” Changes moving in the opposite direction with what his organization has won: Federal rules fight against the “important incident” trend among advanced car technology manufacturers.
The new DOT frame will also allow automobile manufacturers to test self -driving technology with many vehicles that do not meet all federal safety standards according to the new exemption process. That process is currently being used for foreign vehicles imported into the US but is currently expanded to domestic vehicles, which will include a “repetitive assessment” to consider the overall safety of the car. For example, this process can be used faster when approving vehicles that are not accompanied by the steering wheel, brake pedal, rearview mirror or other typical safety features that are less meaningful when the car is controlled by the computer.