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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: 3, Touché) by darkfeline on Friday June 26 2020, @09:06PM (1 child)
We can't call it black box anymore, that is offensive for oppressed minorities.
This joke would be funny if it weren't being taken seriously in many places right now.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2020, @09:24PM
I think the "black box" recorders on aircraft are actually painted international orange.
But I find naming anything after his orange-ness *very* offensive.