Autonomous Vehicle News
Earlier this month, a coalition of twenty-two organizations signed onto a group letter opposing any potential legislation that would exempt AVs from federal safety regulations and allow their manufacturers to hide safety data from the public. Advocates say that vision of the future, though, is much rosier than the AV industry's present. And that data doesn’t account for other kinds of AV incidents that, while not crashes, still pose serious public safety risks. As you know, in our job, in our line of work, seconds can mean the difference between life and death. “I appreciate that maybe states and the federal government have wanted to take a hands-off approach to support innovation,” Cummings said.