Countries agree regulations for automated driving
More than 50 countries, including Japan, South Korea and the EU member states, have agreed common regulations for vehicles that can take over some driving functions, including having a mandatory black box, the UN announced Thursday.
The binding rules on Automated Lane Keeping Systems (ALKS) will come into force in January 2021.
The measures were adopted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations, which brings together 53 countries, not just in Europe but also in Africa and Asia.
"This is the first binding international regulation on so-called 'Level 3' vehicle automation," UNECE said in a statement.
"The new regulation therefore marks an important step towards the wider deployment of automated vehicles to help realise a vision of safer, more sustainable mobility for all."
[...] The United States is not part of the forum but its car manufacturers would have to follow the new regulations in order to sell Level 3 vehicles in Japan, for example.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday June 26 2020, @02:59PM (2 children)
Thanks.
I put the def'n in because I guessed it would be a different term. I wonder what it is in Pommyland.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday June 26 2020, @03:05PM (1 child)
> I wonder what it is in Pommyland.
I don't think there is a specific term - we don't have enough space for it to be a very common sort of road design.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2020, @03:20PM
Even the Dutch have enough space to give it a name -- it's called a ventweg [wikipedia.org] in The Netherlands. But I do note that that page doesn't have a Pommish translation.