US alliance to promote driverless cars
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ALPHABET Inc’s Google unit, Ford Motor Co, ride-sharing service Uber and two other companies said yesterday that they are forming a coalition to push for federal action to help speed self-driving cars to market.
Sweden-based Volvo Cars, which is owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co, and Uber rival Lyft also are part of the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets.
The group said in a statement that it will “work with lawmakers, regulators and the public to realize the safety and societal benefits of self-driving vehicles.”
The coalition said David Strickland, a former top official of the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is writing new guidance on self-driving cars, will be the coalition’s counsel and spokesman.
“The best path for this innovation is to have one clear set of federal standards and the coalition will work with policy-makers to find the right solutions that will facilitate the deployment of self-driving vehicles,” Strickland said in the statement.
The NHTSA will today hold the second of two public forums on its self-driving car guidelines that will feature comments from tech companies and automakers at Stanford University. The administration did not immediately return a message seeking comment on the coalition.
Ford said in a statement that the group will “work together to advocate for policy solutions that will support the deployment of fully autonomous vehicles.”
The NHTSA hopes to release its guidance on self-driving vehicles in July.
California has proposed barring self-driving cars that do not have steering wheels, pedals and a driver ready to take over in an emergency, which Google has opposed. Under current regulations, fully autonomous vehicles without human controls are not legal in the US.
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