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Self-driving cars on Michigan's roads may not need human chaperones much longer. Or at least, there will be (tele)operators instead of drivers:
Michigan's Senate is considering a bill that would allow self-driving cars to be tested on public roads without a human driver inside the vehicle. However, a human would still be required to "promptly" take control of the vehicles movements.
Michigan is already a driving force when it comes to driver-less car technology and now the senate may green light a law taking it a step further. The state senate is expected act quickly on a package of bills to loosen rules governing autonomous vehicles. One would no longer require someone actually be inside a self-driving car while testing it on public roads. Right now, Michigan is home to 375 automotive research centers and houses the world's first controlled environment specifically designed to test the potential of the vehicles.
From Senate Bill 0995 (2016):
(4) Subsections (1), (2), and (3) do not apply to an individual who is using a device described in subsection (1) or (3) to do any of the following:
[...] (e) Operate or program the operation of an automated motor vehicle while testing OR OPERATING the automated motor vehicle
in compliance with section 665, if that automated motor vehicle displays a special plate issued under section 224(3) in the manner required under section 225.WITHOUT A HUMAN OPERATOR.[...] (b) An individual
is present in the vehicle while it is being operated on a highway or street of this state and that individualDESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION (A) has the ability to monitor the vehicle's performance WHILE IT IS BEING OPERATED ON A HIGHWAY OR STREET IN THIS STATE and, if necessary, immediately take control of the vehicle's movements. IF THE INDIVIDUAL DOES NOT, OR IS UNABLE TO, TAKE CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE, THE VEHICLE SHALL BE CAPABLE OF ACHIEVING A MINIMAL RISK CONDITION.
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Thursday September 08 2016, @03:52PM
Michigan is full of lovely high quality quasi-legal weed. Medical cards are basically handed out to anyone, and if you're ideologically opposed to putting your name on a list, everyone and their mother is selling weed anyway. As for white supremacists, stay out of Howell?? I'm near Detroit and have a lot of black friends so I never meet those...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @05:25PM
I suffer depression. I thought I was out of the woods, but the suicidal urges are coming back. It is specifically against the law to treat depression with weed. It's a flat-out lie that it's handed out to anyone. Also good luck getting any even with a medical card, since all that does is allow you to grow your own. I've thought about going out and getting AIDS. Even then I also don't have $500 to buy a medical card. $50 every now and then, maybe once every few months, that I can handle.
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Thursday September 15 2016, @10:57AM
Nononono you've got it all wrong. You say you have back pain and get a card. I've been to jail for weed possession. The judge, cops, prosecutor, other inmates, (literally!!) all asked why I didn't have my card. I told them because I was perfectly healthy and they laughed at me. The system is set up how it is not to distribute medicine, but to get everybody's name on lists and make a lot of money regulating/taxing things while still pandering to the anti-drug people by being ostensibly "medical use only".