federal Regulators in America
that “the Tin Man has a heart”,
said John Markoff in The New
York Times. The chief legal counsel for
the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration this month agreed that the
computers controlling a self-driving car are
the same as a human driver under federal
law. That’s a major step toward ultimately
allowing self-driving cars on the road.
Google and other companies developing
self-driving cars have maintained that
federal and state safety rules are impeding
testing, because the rules typically require
that a human driver be allowed to take the
controls in an emergency. But if the
computer system is considered the legal
driver, companies might be able to speed
up their testing regimes.
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