The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) must...
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) must be sure of driverless cars’ safety before adopting public use regulations, Consumer Watchdog said in a letter sent Tuesday to the DMV (http://bit.ly/1qp4OuS). “In the ideal rule-making process, regulations covering the public…
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use of autonomous vehicles would not be adopted until they could be informed by the results of testing that was done under DMV regulation,” said the letter, written by Consumer Watchdog Privacy Project Director John Simpson, who has often been critical of Google, which Consumer Watchdog believes is trying to rush its autonomous cars to market. The DMV recently published regulations taking effect Sept. 16 for the testing of autonomous vehicles, Consumer Watchdog said. “Unfortunately the [California] Legislature, under pressure from Google and the tech industry, required in SB-1298 that the regulations for both testing and public use be adopted by Jan. 1, 2015.” Consumer Watchdog said the public use regulations should be delayed until there is at least a year of tests under the regulations going into effect in September. “Under the regulations we are proposing, the earliest time a ‘driverless car’ could be approved for public use on California’s highways would be July 1, 2016."