GM, Ford and Toyota to create safety standards for self-driving cars
Regulators in the US have been grappling with how to regulate self-driving cars, with other countries watching to see how implementation of the tech pans out.
Three major car makers said on Wednesday they were forming a consortium to help draw up safety standards for self-driving cars that could eventually help create regulations in the US. General Motors (GM), Ford and Toyota said in a statement they were joining forces with automotive engineering group SAE International to establish autonomous vehicle "safety guiding principles to help inform standards development". The group will also "work to safely advance testing, pre-competitive development and deployment," they added. Regulators in the US have been grappling with how to regulate self-driving cars, with other countries watching closely to see how implementation of the emerging technology pans out. In 2018, US legislators, unable to agree on a way forward, abandoned a bid to pass sweeping legislation to speed the introduction of vehicles without steering wheels and human controls onto roads, but may resurrect the effort later in 2019. The new group, dubbed the Automated Vehicle Safe...
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