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Self-Driving Cars Should Be Legal Because They Pass Safety Tests, Argues Google (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the self-driving-future dept.

An anonymous reader quotes an article on The Verge: Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car project, has sent a letter to US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today with a plan for selling autonomous vehicles that have no steering wheels or pedals. The plan appears to be pretty straightforward: Urmson argues that if a self-driving car can pass standardized federal safety tests, they should be road-legal. Urmson adds that regulators could 'set conditions that limit use based on safety concerns.'

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  1. driving test standards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    About three years ago I accidentally let my license expire and thus had to re-take the driving component of the exam.

    I am somewhat convinced you could pass it with a non-autonomous vehicle having no steering wheels or pedals.

  2. Re:Lots of products pass safety tests by slashping · · Score: 5, Funny

    My bet is that Google is going to have to backpedal on this

    They would, but unfortunately, the backpedal has already been taken out.

  3. Re:Let all autonomous cars share Driver License po by kuzb · · Score: 3, Funny

    "So if it makes too many mistakes or gets into too many accidents it looses its license."

    You now have one point on your spelling license.

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    BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.