The American authority NHTS has made an important policy decision that will affect the development of self-driving cars.
According NHTS a car with software from Google for automatic driving legally equated with a driver.
equal before the law. It has been the automotive and software developers great goal for cars that run automatically. And now the US authority NHTS taken an important decision in principle.
According to a statement, then a self-driving Google car is considered to be a driver purely legal.
This means that the manufacturer of the car and software will be responsible for what the car get up to – and not those sitting in the car.
this has always been a difficult issue for the automotive industry that alternately pointed out that it is the driver who will be responsible for driving but sometimes claimed that it is the car manufacturer is responsible.
Can be indicative of the rest of the world
Google has long argued for a fully driverless car – and also built a car without a steering wheel – and waiting for this important announcement to move forward with production.
the news from NHTS can be a help to the rest of the world legal professionals when, country by country, will determine the rules for self-driving cars.
But according NHTS is also now Google can prove that they are able to develop and build a car that can really be equated with a human driver in all kinds of traffic situations.
according to Google, the greatest danger rather than people trying to take control of an autonomous car – and not the self-driving car itself.
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