"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies self-driving car regulation, called the bills “a mixed bag.”
“Critically, they are in desperate need of clarification followed by thoughtful discussion,” he said.
Walker Smith said the bills do a good job of allowing autonomous vehicles on the road, but much of the language becomes confusing and difficult to differentiate from current laws.
“Like earlier bills in Michigan and other states, SB 995 and 996 understandably struggle to reconcile an existing vehicle code with automated driving,” he said, going on to call some of the language “collectively, a mess.”"
- Date Published:09/08/2016
- Original Publication:The Detroit News