NHTSA to Hold Listening Session on Automated Vehicles
The meeting will be held at the U.S. General Services Administration Regional Office Building at 301 7th Street SW (7th & D streets) in Washington, D.C., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Registration is required for all attendees, including those who do not plan to make any oral remarks at the meeting, NHTSA said. To register click here.
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The policy guidelines, issued Sept. 20, are intended to ensure automated vehicle technologies are safely introduced and achieve their full safety potential by removing potential roadblocks to the integration of innovative automotive technology. Written comments on the policy statement are due by Nov. 22, NHTSA said.
Officials said the new policy is intended to give manufacturers and other entities involved in the development of automated vehicles a way to document performance of vehicles using a 15-point checklist of safety functions and to clarify federal and state agencies’ responsibilities for maintaining licensing of drivers and enforcement while giving federal regulators the responsibility for setting safety standards and conducting recalls.
NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind has said automated driving technologies potentially could prevent the overwhelming majority of crashes caused by human choice or error. In 2015, there was a big increase in highway fatalities, with 35,092 people killed, a 7.2% increase from 2014.
