These slides were presented on a panel by Dawn Marie Yankeelov, president of Aspectx and executive director of TALK, the Technology Association of Louisville Kentucky in August 2017.
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What’s Up with Driverless Cars: A Panel Discussion
1. A Look at Current National Legislation
Presented By:
Dawn Marie Yankeelov,
President of Aspectx, and Executive Director,
Technology Association of Louisville Kentucky
2. Last week: Telsa developing a long-haul, electric
semi-truck that can drive itself and move in
“platoons” – self-driving tech into the electric
truck
19 companies racing to put self-driving cars on
the road by 2020, including Google, Toyota,
Nissan
Partnership Example In 2016:
Uber and Volvo agreed to a $300 million alliance to
develop driverless cars. Uber has made a play for
the self-driving car space by poaching staff from
Carnegie Mellon University's robotics department.
3.
4. Federal Automated Vehicles policy in Sept.
2016
◦ DOT Secretary Elaine Chao looking at revised report
now
5 areas to be addressed:
Vehicle safety standards, liability,
connectivity, and interoperability, data
management, privacy and cybersecurity
--Government Computer News, Aug. 9, 2017
5. Number of Exemptions on what is required in a car (lift
federal cap)
Examination of state laws because states are stepping
up in the absence of federal regs
Autonomous measure moving through the House and
a bipartisan group in Senate planning to release major
legislative package after August recess
Focus on safety and consumer protections—industry
would submit Safety Assessment certification
Congress not ready to give power to NHTSA* to
require approval of developers of driverless cars
Assessment of vulnerability of cyber attacks on car
data and movement—expect a federal advisory
committee
--The Hill, August 7, 2017
* National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
6. Fast Company - Uber and Baidu are eating Ford’s
dust in the race for self-driving tech Fortune - Ford
pulls ahead of Uber and Waymo when it comes to
self-driving cars Los Angeles Times - Tesla, Uber lag
in driverless progress, study says; Ford is tops San
Francisco Chronicle - Ford, GM and Nissan Lead Self-
Driving Research The Washington Post - Who's
winning the self-driving car race? It's not the
company you think USA Today - Daimler's Mercedes,
Bosch to deliver self-driving car by 2021 USA Today -
Why your first self-driving car ride may be in a Ford
Wired - Detroit is stomping Silicon Valley in the self-
driving car race Wired UK - Ford is the leading self-
driving car manufacturer – ahead of Waymo, Tesla
and Uber