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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @12:49PM (2 children)
Fixing motion sickness is one of the major problems in autonomous driving. A number of expensive active suspensions are being developed to really smooth out the ride--but these are most likely to appear on high end / luxury cars aimed at 1%'ers. Everyone else gets to barf, I guess?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @03:14PM
About a third of people are "highly susceptible" to motion sickness according to wiki. If suspension tech reached the point where motion could no longer be felt, would the problem be solved, or would the windows have to be blacked out (or use VR headsets) to remove signs of motion from the periphery? Can the issue be solved by encouraging people to just look out the windows rather than get sick trying to check their phone?
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Sunday June 28 2020, @10:51AM
I have a version of the GP's problem. I can't read in a vehicle for more than a minute or so without feeling a nauseous headache. If I persist, it will get worse until I throw up. In my experience, smoothing out the ride does not help, if anything it makes it worse. (It might be because smoother rides tend to have more enclosed environments. Fresh air helps.)
In autonomous vehicles I would be pretty much limited to conversation, music, or sleep.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.