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Tech Giants Seek Changes to California Self-Driving Car Policies

posted by martyb on Saturday April 29 2017, @06:32PM   
from the 3-laws-of-car-botics dept.

takyon writes:

Several tech companies have submitted comments to the California DMV, seeking changes to the current self-driving car policies:

The companies [Apple, Alphabet's Waymo, Tesla] -- along with dozens of other organizations like Lyft, Uber, Ford and Toyota -- submitted comments to the Department of Motor Vehicles, which were then posted online. The suggestions range the gamut from deciding when a driver should have to take control of the autonomous vehicle to recommending paying customers be allowed to ride in self-driving cars.

[...] Apple -- in its letter signed by Steve Kenner, its director of product integrity -- said it's "investing heavily in the study of machine learning and automation, and is excited about the potential of automated systems in many areas, including transportation." It wants to see changes to three California policies related to "disengagement reporting," definitions, and testing without safety drivers.

One of Apple's criticisms focused on current and proposed disengagement reporting requirements, which explain when a driver has to take control of the self-driving car. Apple said the metric isn't transparent enough to make consumers comfortable with the technology. The company believes the correct metric for evaluating automated vehicles should include data on successfully prevented crashes and traffic rule violations.

Also at AppleInsider.

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• Re:Rich get Richer Re:Rich get Richer (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @07:06PM (5 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @07:06PM (#501632)

  Well that all depends. How many H1Bs did the tech giants hire with the intention of denying Americans the opportunity to design and build self-driving cars? How much tax evasion have the tech giants done to avoid paying any sort of welfare benefits to the permanently unemployed American underclass?

  The problem isn't the technology itself but the immoral capitalist scum who are making it.

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• Re:Rich get Richer Re:Rich get Richer (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @08:25PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @08:25PM (#501654)

  The problem isn't the technology itself but the immoral capitalist scum who are making it.

  FTFY. Any immoral scum is a problem.

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    Re:Rich get Richer (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @08:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @08:32PM (#501657)

    KILL the INFIDELS!

    ALLAHLALALALALALALALALA

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  • Re:Rich get Richer Re:Rich get Richer (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 29 2017, @10:21PM (1 child)

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday April 29 2017, @10:21PM (#501693) Journal

    Example: Soviet union
    (enforced "union"?)

    Cambodia, Pol pot
    etc..

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    • Re:Rich get Richer (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @02:16AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @02:16AM (#501754)

      Here on Earth we never (in recorded history) experienced shortage of immoral scum. At least in this century they are somewhat better controlled. Some, like in every "hot spot" of the world, are obvious. Other make their decisions in quiet board rooms of large companies; those are hidden from public view, and only facts like the statistic of suicides at Foxconn or rampant outsourcing reveal the story.

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• Re:Rich get Richer (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @03:15PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @03:15PM (#501868)

  it's also the idiotic consumers who would buy a closed source driverless car.

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