On Wednesday, California?s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) held a meeting to discuss a set of proposed rules (PDF) that would govern how state regulator would deal with autonomous vehicles in the near future.
The California DMV?s rules lifted from guidelines that the National Highway Transportation Safety Authority (NHTSA) published last month then made voluntary. That troubled automakers and autonomous software engineers from Google, Ford, Volkswagen, and Honda, all of which currently have licenses to test autonomous vehicles on California?s roads as long as those cars have a qualified driver.
Eighteen companies working on self-driving vehicles have licenses to test autonomous vehicles in the state. California?s strong technology industry made it a hotbed for autonomous driving research, and the state?s large population often means that companies will adapt their product to meet California?s regulatory demands if they?re more stringent than rules governing other states in the nation.
According to Reuters, Google and other automakers objected in particular to a proposed rule that would require the self-driving car builder to submit a year?s worth of testing data on when the car had to be disengaged from autonomous mode in order for that car maker to be allowed to fully deploy the self-driving vehicle.
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