Autonomous Trucks
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed a new national program to update the regulations surrounding autonomous vehicles this week. The claim is that the resulting information will help regulators update safety standards to incorporate self-driving vehicles. But it’s also going to be a privacy issue, as citizens have already expressed their dismay with automakers even considering sharing AV data with local authorities. The department allegedly even had training documents stating that autonomous vehicles collected a wealth of useful surveillance information that had been used in the past to help with investigations. A decade ago, automakers were promising to launch commercially viable autonomous vehicles by 2020.