Driverless cars confront rules written for humans


New experience: A file picture showing the Robocar, the world’s first driverless electric racing car, being prepared on the sidelines before a demonstration at the inaugural New York ePrix Formula E World Championship in the Brooklyn borough of New York City recently. — Reuters

US regulators to undertake one of the biggest overhauls of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard

WASHINGTON: When the US government finally got around to regulating auto safety in 1967, it insisted that every car have seatbelts and that the steering column be engineered to absorb impact so it wouldn’t spear the driver.

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