Automated/Driverless Vehicles

Consumer groups call for investigation into Tesla’s ‘autopilot.’ KABC TV-7. May 31, 2018.  Tesla hit parked police car ‘while using autopilot.’ BBC News. May 30, 2018.  Center for Auto Safety and Consumer Watchdog Request California Department of Motor Vehicles Investigation into Deceptive Tesla ‘Autopilot.’ Center for Auto Safety. May 30, …

Uber’s and others’ potential liability for the death of a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., hit by a self-driving test vehicle raises complicated legal and data access questions. Local and federal investigations are just getting underway so the facts aren’t well understood yet in the Uber Technologies crash. But the quick …

Center for Auto Safety statement on DOT press release on voluntary industry agreement to equip new passenger vehicles with automatic emergency braking (AEB) by 2022: For years the Center for Auto Safety has been calling for all new vehicles to be required to have Automatic Emergency Braking. Today, DOT Secretary …

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 6, 2017 Contact: Jason Levine, (202) 328-7700, JLevine@autosafety.org Center for Auto Safety Provides Testimony Calling on NHTSA To Make Safety Mandatory in Regulating Autonomous Vehicles Washington D.C. – The Center for Auto Safety, the nation’s leading independent non-profit organization providing consumers a voice for auto …

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Detroit — Jason Levine, the new head of the Center for Auto Safety, has a thought on the autonomous car exuberance driving the auto industry and would-be investors: slow down. Not because technology doesn’t exist to enable vehicles to steer, turn and stop themselves. It’s because providers of the technology — …

SEATTLE — Automakers say they’re making great progress in developing self-driving cars that are ready to hit the road. And they’re encouraged that Congress seems eager to pass legislation that will make this possible. Consumer advocates want lawmakers to step on the brakes and slow things down a bit. Congress …

The U.S. Transportation Department unveiled a new policy that permits companies developing autonomous vehicles to self-police the technology’s safety, a move that drew plaudits from automakers but criticism from safety advocates. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said the policy incorporates concerns raised by companies and others about initial guidance released by …

9/12/2017 ​WASHINGTON (Sept. 12, 2017) — The National Transportation Safety Board determined Tuesday that a truck driver’s failure to yield the right of way and a car driver’s inattention due to overreliance on vehicle automation are the probable cause of the fatal May 7, 2016, crash near Williston, Florida. The NTSB also …

February 7, 2017 By Ben Kelley Few cabinet members can claim the distinction of shaping a revolution. But that opportunity will fall to Elaine Chao, President Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Transportation. She assumes her new role at the dawn of the autonomous motor vehicle era, which promises …