"Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina who advises the NHTSA on autonomous car law, thinks drivers are within their legal rights to make changes to their own cars — but authorities have the power to take a closer look at devices marketed for that purpose.
"The NHTSA believes (and I agree) that it has authority over a wide variety of aftermarket devices — even including smartphone software designed to work with a car," he said via email. "But just because NHTSA has authority to regulate something doesn't mean that it has preemptively regulated it or that any such regulation makes it illegal.""
- Date Published:02/24/2017
- Original Publication:Mashable