Lyft Urges NHTSA: Help States Work Together on Automated-Vehicle Policy
Even as the federal government assumes a larger role in shaping rules of the road for self-driving cars, concerns persist that a new policy doesn?t do enough to help automakers and tech companies deploy cars across the country.
In public comments submitted in response to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s new Federal Automated Vehicles Policy, representatives from ride-hailing company Lyft expressed fears that a patchwork of state-by-state laws addressing autonomous operations will complicate and hinder the deployment of these new cars. Lyft has asked NHTSA to add provisions encouraging states to recognize the rights of cars launched elsewhere to use their roads.
Reciprocity among states ?would accelerate the ability for deployment of HAVs [highly automated vehicles] across the nation for vehicles whose operational design domains have already been safely and successfully tested or deployed elsewhere,? wrote Robert Grant, director of government relations for Lyft.
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The first wave of state laws and regulations contain stark differences from state to state. California, for one example, requires that autonomous cars be equipped with a steering wheel and a brake pedal, with licensed drivers behind the wheel. Nevada has no such restrictions.
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Reciprocity works well enough when it comes to, for example, permitting drivers who are licensed in one state to drive on roads in another. But for autonomous vehicles, the first wave of state laws and regulat...
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