{"id":22047,"date":"2016-02-12T19:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T03:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/us-highway-authorities-concede-that-artificial-intelligence-can-legally-drive-a-car"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:11:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:11:20","slug":"us-highway-authorities-concede-that-artificial-intelligence-can-legally-drive-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/us-highway-authorities-concede-that-artificial-intelligence-can-legally-drive-a-car","title":{"rendered":"US highway authorities concede that artificial intelligence can legally \u2018drive\u2019 a car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-highway-authorities-concede-that-artificial-intelligence-can-legally-drive-a-car.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a major step forward for self-driving cars and the industry seeking to manufacture them, US highway authorities have informed Google that its autonomous vehicle systems could qualify as a \u201cdriver\u201d in the eyes of the law.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/isearch.nhtsa.gov\/files\/Google%20--%20compiled%20response%20to%2012%20Nov%20%2015%20interp%20request%20--%204%20Feb%2016%20final.htm\">letter<\/a> addressed to the company from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last week suggests that if self-driving vehicles (SDVs) can satisfy a number of safety standards, the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) is controlling the car \u2013 in the absence of any human controls \u2013 would not be a barrier to the car legally driving on US roads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe agree with Google its SDV will not have a \u2018driver\u2019 in the traditional sense that vehicles have had drivers during the last more than one hundred years,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/isearch.nhtsa.gov\/files\/Google%20--%20compiled%20response%20to%2012%20Nov%20%2015%20interp%20request%20--%204%20Feb%2016%20final.htm\">writes chief counsel for the NHTSA, Paul A. Hemmersbaugh<\/a>. \u201cIf no human occupant of the vehicle can actually drive the vehicle, it is more reasonable to identify the \u2018driver\u2019 as whatever (as opposed to whoever) is doing the driving. In this instance, an item of motor vehicle equipment, the [SDS Self-Driving System], is actually driving the vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/us-highway-authorities-concede-that-artificial-intelligence-can-legally-drive-a-car\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major step forward for self-driving cars and the industry seeking to manufacture them, US highway authorities have informed Google that its autonomous vehicle systems could qualify as a \u201cdriver\u201d in the eyes of the law. A letter addressed to the company from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last week suggests that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68481,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22047\/revisions\/68481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}