One, Alphabet Inc. 's Waymo , is running a limited fully autonomous ride-hailing service in the Phoenix area.So far the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has taken a voluntary approach to autonomous vehicles without standards and regulations. That has brought criticism from the National Transportation Safety Board and safety advocates for being too hands-off.NHTSA said Thursday that it wants public input on a proposed regulation of autonomous vehicle sensors, how the vehicles detect other road users and infrastructure, how they plan routes and how they carry out that plan. "Last year the NTSB blamed lax regulation in part for a 2018 crash involving an Uber autonomous test vehicle in which a pedestrian was killed. His organization petitioned NHTSA seeking autonomous vehicle regulations two years ago but heard nothing, he said.The 60-day comment period, he said, will expire about the time of Biden's scheduled inauguration, he said. "The optimistic way of looking at it is the DOT (Department of Transportation) finally decided that a zero oversight of the self-driving car industry was a bad idea," he said.

Source: Economic Times November 20, 2020 02:47 UTC