With this ruling from the NHTSA, we are just a few years away from hundreds of thousands (and ultimately millions) of self-driving cars on American roads
“NHTSA will interpret ‘driver’ in the context of Google‘s described motor vehicle design as referring to the (self-driving system), and not to any of the vehicle occupants… We agree with Google its (self-driving car) will not have a ‘driver’ in the traditional sense that vehicles have had drivers during the last more than one hundred years.”
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