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

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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Re:Lots of products pass safety tests

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

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