Under California’s proposed rules, autonomous vehicles would be required to have a steering wheel and pedals in order to be licensed to drive on the state’s roads. In a move that is sure to draw complaints from the likes of Google and other companies developing the vehicles, the rules mandate that the autonomous rides come equipped with a steering wheel and have a licensed (and, presumably, sober) driver on board to take over in case of emergency.
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It began in the 1980s and is led by Sheik Zakzaky, who was inspired by Iran’s revolutionary movement when he traveled there. The New York-based group said the army’s version “just doesn’t stack up”.
Manufacturers would be approved for a three-year deployment permit that would allow them “to evaluate the safety and real-world performance of autonomous vehicles” and influence subsequent regulations, the DMV said. The automakers would also need to submit a monthly safety report and disclose information, collected by vehicles to counter possible cyber-attacks.
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He denies holding them although they were kidnapped from an area under Army of Islam control. The group’s surviving leaders were said to be discussing a succession plan.
Company spokesman Johnny Luu says Google, which has led development of the technology, is “gravely disappointed” by the rules, which will limit Google’s ability to deploy the cars as quickly as it would like.
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Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, said in an interview that there was a danger of overanalyzing the visit. Stop-over in Lahore on way back from Kabul marks first visit by an Indian prime minister to Pakistan in over a decade.
The proposed rules hold motorists responsible for obeying traffic laws, regardless of whether they are controlling a car’s movements.
It’s no surprise that reports have once again surfaced that Google is likely working on a Uber rival, but at the same time there has been an exodus from Google to Uber.
The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles unveiled precedent-setting draft regulations Wednesday.
Silicon Valley giant Google has pushed hardest, already building a prototype without a wheel or pedals but rigging the hardware back into the cars pending the long-anticipated regulations. As a condition of the permit, “autonomous vehicles can only be operated by the manufacturer or made available to the public on no more than a leased basis”.
Tesla Motors Inc., which offers perhaps the most advanced semiautonomous features available to consumers through its electric vehicles, has said it would only be a few years before fully driverless cars are ready to hit the roads. But outside of press events and other private showings, regular people have yet to operate them. The driver must have a normal driver’s license, as well as special certification for operating a driverless vehicle.
The first ever regulations for self-driving cars rolled out of California on Wednesday – and Google is very displeased.
“Driverless vehicles are initially excluded from deployment”, the regulations stated, adding that fully autonomous vehicles would be addressed at some later point in a different set of rules. The state’s legislature required that the DMV develop regulations for both testing and the deployment of autonomous vehicles.
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California is scheduling two public workshops to discuss the draft regulations, one on January 28, 2016 in Sacramento, and the other in Los Angeles on February 2, 2016.
