NHTSA Recommends Autonomous Vehicles be Used for Testing Only — For Now – 5/31/13

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by Tiffany Kaiser
May 31, 2013

NHTSA wants better safeguards before autonomous vehicles be used for general purposes on the roads

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said autonomous vehicles should only be used for testing purposes by U.S. states until more safety features are added to these cars.

In a new set of recommendations, the NHTSA said self-driving cars need plenty of safety-related improvements before being considered for widespread consumer use. For instance, the agency said these vehicles should have a feature that recognizes when their technology is failing, and let the driver know so that they can take over quickly.

NHTSA also said that autonomous vehicles should be able to record these failures so that they can be understood later.

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