{"id":10380,"date":"2021-01-20T19:52:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T19:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=10380"},"modified":"2021-01-20T19:52:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T19:52:44","slug":"driverless-vehicle-safety-standards-modernized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/driverless-vehicle-safety-standards-modernized\/","title":{"rendered":"Driverless vehicle safety standards modernized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced a historic rule to modernize driverless vehicle safety standards.<\/p>\n<p>The new rule aims to clarify ambiguities in current occupant protection standards for vehicles equipped with automated driving systems that are designed without traditional manual driver controls.<\/p>\n<p>The rule amends several crashworthiness regulations to clarify safety standards for automated vehicles equipped without manual driver controls. The rule also exempts automated vehicles designed never to carry any human occupants, including human drivers, from crashworthiness standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith more than 90 percent of serious crashes caused by driver error, it\u2019s vital that we remove unnecessary barriers to technology that could help save lives,\u201d said Deputy Administrator James Owens said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not want regulations enacted long before the development of automated technologies to present an unintended and unnecessary barrier to innovation and improved vehicle safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NHTSA\u2019s final rule is one of a series of regulatory actions that NHTSA has taken to further modernize vehicle standards for new technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced a historic rule to modernize driverless vehicle safety standards. The new rule aims to clarify ambiguities in current occupant protection standards for vehicles equipped with automated driving systems that are designed without traditional manual driver controls. The rule amends several crashworthiness regulations to clarify safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":10381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}