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The arrival of autonomous vehicles (AV, or self-driving vehicles) on the public highways is getting closer. Just this month (June 2017), Nutonomy announced a partnership with Lyft for R&D on its existing AV testing on the streets of Boston. Lyft announced yesterday that by 2025 it will provide "at least 1 billion rides per year using electric autonomous vehicles." Also this week, Japanese robotics firm ZMP announced its plan to have an AV taxi on the streets of Tokyo in time for the 2020 Olympics. The need for AV regulation is pressing.
The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee responded Tuesday by releasing bipartisan principles for AV legislation ahead of a Wednesday hearing titled 'Paving the way for self-driving vehicles.' The authors of the principles, U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), plan to introduce legislation, but have so far set neither a date nor deadline for this.
The principles focus on safety, promoting innovation, tech-neutral legislation, clarification over federal and state responsibilities, public education, and -- of course -- cybersecurity. The last is minimal. The document states that cybersecurity must be included 'from the very beginning of their development,' and that "Legislation must address the connectivity of self-driving vehicles and potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities before they compromise safety."
Source: SecurityWeek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @11:01PM (6 children)
They mean DRM, or am I mistaken?
More mechanism to prevent you from tinkering with a device you 'bought'? When you do an oil change yourself, they can charge you under the DMCA.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hendrikboom on Saturday June 17 2017, @11:43PM (4 children)
They could mean DRM. But they more likely mean for it not to be possible to take control of someone's car without permission while it's barrelling down a busy expressway.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by c0lo on Sunday June 18 2017, @12:58AM (1 child)
What about getting safely (for the rest of the traffic) to the next highway exit and barrelling it down into a disused quarry with the congresscritter inside? Or drive into the dessert for all the remaining fuel. Or find some water deep enough...
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18 2017, @01:34AM
Mmm...pudding...Ice cream...linzer tarts....mmmmm....dessert.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday June 18 2017, @01:58AM
This.
If even 3% of vehicles could be remotely controlled you could shut down every freeway or busy city route on a moments notice.
As soon as it was determined that Jeeps could be remotely commandeered that model should have been ordered off the roadway nation wide.
Instead we have parking lots full of Volkswagen Diesels waiting for software fixes and cars with takata airbags still driving around.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by kaszz on Sunday June 18 2017, @05:00AM
DRM will be great when your car is taken over and you find out the backseat is filled with rapidly decomposing gel and the infotainment says something about Akbar all over.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Saturday June 17 2017, @11:43PM
That and the kind referring to things like not being able to crack it and steer a guy off a cliff. Not sure why they think sternly calling for it is going to force the manufacturers to do any better here though.
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