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Automobiles and technology developers of testing and setting developers self-direction And the advanced features of the driver’s assistance will not have to report more detailed information, public clashes for the federal government, according to a new framework issued by the US Transport Department today.
Movements are an aid for car manufacturers that drive themselves and the wider vehicle technology industry, which has complained that federal clashes’ reporting requirements are extremely heavy and redundant. But the new rules will limit the information available to those who oversee and study autonomous vehicles and driver assistance traits-technology development that are deeply intertwined with public safety, but which companies often protect from public views because they include owner systems that companies spend billions to develop.
Government new orders Limit “one of the only sources of data available to the public we have in incidents that include level 2 systems,” says Sam Abuelsamid, who writes about the vehicle industry and is the deputy chairman of telemetry, a Michigan research firm, referring to the driver’s assistant features TeslaS ‘ Complete (supervised) self-direction, General Motors‘ Super -cruiseAND FordBlue sailing. These incidents, he notes, are only becoming “more common”.
New rules allow companies to protect from Public View some clashes, including the automation version included in the incidents and “narratives” about clashes, on the grounds that such information contains “confidential business information”. Self-driving vehicle developers, such as Waymo and Zoox, will no longer have to report clashes involving property damage less than $ 1,000, if the incident does not include the self-driving machine that crashes on its own or by hitting another vehicle or object. (This may be, for example, public federal public reporting for some small Fender-Benders in which one Waymo has been hit by another car.
And in one change, manufacturers of advanced driver assistance features, such as full self-direction, should report collision only if they result in victims, hospitalization, air bag placement, or a stroke in a “vulnerable road user” such as a pedestrian or cyclist should no longer report the collision.
“This seems to close the door to a large number of additional reports,” says William Wallace, who runs security advocacy on customer reports. “Is a great carving.” Changes move in the opposite direction of what its organization has protected: Federal rules that fight against a “important incident under the reporting” trend among advanced vehicle technology producers.
The new framework will also allow automobiles to test self-driving technology with more vehicles that do not meet all federal security standards under a new exclusion process. This process, which is currently used for foreign vehicles imported into the US, but is now expanding to those made domestically, will include a “repetitive summary” that considers the overall safety of the vehicle “. The process can be used, for example, to approve of non -driving vehicles, brake pedals, rear mirrors or other typical safety features that have less sense when cars are driven by computers.
