The new bipartisan AV bill is a good start, but it’s missing ADAS urgency
In “Draft of bipartisan driverless car bill offered by House panel,” Jessica Wehrman from Roll Call reports on a new draft of an AV Bill in the US Congress. Readers of this column will recall that a previous bill draft was developed in the US House earlier this year. The previous version consisted of three parts: Definitions for AV Portions, Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, and Relationship to Other Laws. Part 1 proposed encoding into federal law the well-publicized SAE Levels of AV automation while Part 2 dictated to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) the process to create safety standards, being very specific in terms of technology and timeframe. Finally, Part 3 proposed that federal law outweighs all other laws in establishing basic safety standards for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). As pointed out in “Reacting To The Proposals In The U.S. House’s Autonomous Vehicle Bill,” there were issues with all three parts of the proposed bill.