“A vehicle that drives itself challenges this basic assumption."
#Drive ahead youtube driver#
Most of NHTSA’s safety standards assume the need for a human driver to operate required safety equipment,” he said. He acknowledged that autonomous cars have the “potential to change not only the way that vehicles operate, but also the way we at NHTSA regulate them. In his remarks, Strickland said “automated vehicle technologies have the potential to transform the way we look at transportation and highway safety,” but added that developing testing and regulations for self-driving cars is “a challenge” since the agency would largely be starting from scratch. And at an event in Detroit last week, NHTSA’s director of crash avoidance and electronic controls research, Tim Johnson, announced that the agency will conduct a two- to three-year, $1.75 million research project in conjunction with Virginia Tech to study the real-world implications of autonomous vehicle technology. But with great changes comes greater regulation, and after recent legislation making autonomous cars legal in California, Nevada and Florida, federal regulators are attempting to stay ahead of the rapid rise of the robo-car.Īt a forum in Washington, D.C., NHTSA Administrator David Strickland laid out the agency’s wide-ranging and far-reaching intentions to implement testing and ultimately draft rules for autonomous vehicles. It's a brave new autonomous world, with Google having logged over 300,000 miles in its fleet of autonomous hybrids, and Audi, BMW and General Motors all racing to bringing the technology to market. Google and several automakers are creating a future in which we'll cede control and let the robot drive.
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