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Obama to back self-driving cars plan with USD 4 bln
2016-01-15 09:40:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will unveil at the Detroit auto show on 14 January a plan to develop a national programme for autonomous driving technology within the next six months, writes Recode. President Obama plans to insert USD 4 billion into the 2017 budget to back a 10-year programme whose aim is to support and quicken vehicle automation projects.
US to plough $4bn into self-driving cars
2016-01-15 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
10-year plan will facilitate pilot programmes to test connected vehicle systems.
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US government developing policies for self-driving cars
2016-01-15 00:58:03| Automakers - Topix.net
The federal government wants to get autonomous vehicles on the road more quickly, and says it will fast-track policies and possibly even waive regulations to do it. U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx - surrounded by representatives from General Motors and Ford as well as Google and Tesla - said Thursday that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will spend the next six months developing guidance for automakers on what's expected of self-driving prototype cars and what sort of tests should be used to make sure they are safe.
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Google's Self-Driving Cars Still Need Human Touch
2016-01-15 00:07:07| TechNewsWorld
Google's self-driving cars showed major safety improvements over the past year -- but there were dozens of incidents when test drivers had to intervene, the company said in a report recently filed with California regulators. There were 272 so-called immediate manual control disengagements due to a failure of the autonomous car technology, between September 2014 and November 2015, Google reported.
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Questions and answers about new self-driving car safety data
2016-01-14 05:02:54| Automakers - Topix.net
In this Nov. 3, 2015 file photo, Nissan Motor Co. General Manager Tetsuya Iijima takeshis hands off of the steering wheel of a self-driving prototype vehicle during a test drive in Tokyo.
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