NHTSA Head Says Self Driving Tech Has Safeguards but Too Soon to Say if Final Vehicular Automation Will be Safe
Situation: Mark Rosekind, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, gave a restrained view of self-driving vehicles at a recent MIT conference while acknowledging that technology could provide important new safeguards for cars but said it was too soon to say exactly what form vehicular automation would eventually take.
Significance: Rosekind did express enthusiasm for the possibility of automation-based safety improvements and said that NHTSA is trying to expedite the process through which more testing of automation takes place.
Backstory: The onstage remarks by Rosekind were made at an MIT Age Lab event, The Present and Future of Automated Driving: Technology, Policy, and the Human Factor, with Bryan Reimer, a research scientist at the MIT AgeLab and associate director of the New England University Transportation Center, conducting a probing interview.
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