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AV-STEP To Permit Sale Of Vehicles Without Steering Wheels Or Pedals
Long before AV-STEP, Golden Age science fiction author Miles J. Breuer described a unique vehicle, one that had not been imagined before:
A car with no steering wheel or pedals! It's not clear how such a thing could come to be in the heavily regulated real world.
NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) has been working on it, however. They've proposed the AV-STEP program, ADS-Equipped Vehicle Safety, Transparency and Evaluation Program.
To qualify for the program, companies will need to submit data related to the safety of the “design, development, and operations” of their AVs. Once admitted, participants will be required to submit both periodic and event-triggered reports, like crash reports, to NHTSA — all of which the agency would be at liberty to publish in the name of transparency.
(Via TechCrunch.)
The car had no steering wheel, and no one drove! Ames tinkered around with something on the instrument board when he got in; and in a few moments we were off.
('Paradise and Iron' by Miles Breuer)
The AV STEP program has two tiers — one for vehicles built with human controls, with fallback designs that can be managed by humans; and another for vehicles built without such controls. As more of the latter begin to flood public streets, NHTSA hopes the program and data reporting would make the agency better equipped to “address emerging risks associated with their deployment.”
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