"“California is an example of the difficulties of regulating and how an effort to encourage and facilitate automated driving has actually complicated and in some ways impeded it,” said Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor of law and engineering at the University of South Carolina and an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
Smith said the model state policy was unlikely to lead to a uniform policy across the country — a point encouraged by the Department of Transportation. But in some cases, custom approaches could work.
“I think it’s OK for states to experiment and see what works,” Smith said. “The kind of patchwork that I think would pose the greater concern is states imposing specific designer requirements on a production vehicle, and that’s what NHTSA would push back against.”"
- Date Published:09/20/2016
- Original Publication:Los Angeles Times