Legal aspects of cars on autopilot after officials say driver was sleeping in Tesla

This is the latest in a string of incidents involving autonomous cars across the country. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says the autonomous cars of that level can "control steering, braking and accelerating simultaneously under some circumstances." Harrington sits on the Wisconsin Automated Connected Electric Shared Mobility board, which looks at laws for autonomous vehicles. “I don't want to lose track of the fact that these features are designed to reduce human error, that leads to accidents. On their website, they say the autopilot features "require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous."