{"id":277006,"date":"2021-06-17T13:13:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T10:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/us-senator-tries-to-exempt-avs-from-safety-standards-gets-rejected\/"},"modified":"2021-06-17T13:13:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T10:13:21","slug":"us-senator-tries-to-exempt-avs-from-safety-standards-gets-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/us-senator-tries-to-exempt-avs-from-safety-standards-gets-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"#US senator tries to exempt AVs from safety standards \u2014 gets rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#US senator tries to exempt AVs from safety standards \u2014 gets rejected<\/strong>”
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While President Joe Biden\u2019s plans to boost EV adoption have been well received, the incorporation of self-driving cars into\u00a0US roads is still facing strong resistance.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the US\u00a0Senate Commerce Committee rejected\u00a0Republican Senator John Thune\u2019s proposal to attach measures lifting regulations on autonomous vehicles (AVs) to a $78 billion surface transportation bill, Reuters<\/a> reports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thune has suggested granting to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) the power to exempt a large number of autonomous vehicles\u00a0per manufacturer from safety standards written with human drivers in mind.<\/p>\n

The senator has argued that self-driving vehicles could enhance road safety by eliminating human error, especially in respect to distracted or impaired drivers.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, this isn\u2019t the first time Thune\u2019s attempted to facilitate the deployment of AVs, as he had also tried to attach the measures to a bill on China tech policy, earlier in May. In fact, alongside other lawmakers, he has been striving to win app<\/a>roval for the bill for nearly five years.<\/p>\n

As a result of the strong resistance by union groups and attorneys, specifically, the Teamsters Union and the American Association for Justice, his bid didn\u2019t go through.<\/p>\n

The latter commented\u00a0that it \u201cwill continue to oppose any legislation that exempts the driverless car industry from basic safety standards, and allows auto and tech companies to avoid being held accountable through the use of forced arbitration clauses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Similarly,\u00a0Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, a Democrat, pointed in her response to recent Tesla crashes and other incidents involving driver assistance systems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thune blamed the \u201cTeamsters and trial lawyers\u201d for collaborating with the Democrats on the committee, who are serving \u201cspecial interests against the best interests of our economy and the American people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But is the senator really considering the best interest of the American people?<\/p>\n

According to a recent study, Americans are still very wary of\u00a0autonomous vehicle technology<\/a> and the vast majority of the respondents still trust a human driver over a self-driving car.<\/p>\n

Safety concerns of an unperfected new technology are of vital importance, and exempting (semi)autonomous vehicles from the safety standards seems more like offering support to the American AV companies like Waymo and Cruise.<\/p>\n\n

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“#US senator tries to exempt AVs from safety standards \u2014 gets rejected” While President Joe Biden\u2019s plans to boost EV adoption have been well received, the incorporation of self-driving cars into\u00a0US roads is still facing strong resistance. Yesterday, the US\u00a0Senate Commerce Committee rejected\u00a0Republican Senator John Thune\u2019s proposal to attach measures lifting regulations on autonomous vehicles…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/shift?filter_last=1&fit=1280,640&url=https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/06\/justice.jpg&signature=debd1e5debf6b06bbf4dd054bf115555","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}