Sentences with phrase «automated vehicle testing»

Apple sent the letter to the NHTSA to weigh in on a proposed policy about automated vehicle testing.

From the Competitive Enterprise Institute: Today, the California Department of Motor Vehicles held a hearing on its proposed rules that would govern automated vehicle testing and public deployment in...

By changing state law to allow automated vehicle testing and partnering with Cadillac to bring its headquarters to New York City, Governor Cuomo has positioned New York State to take the lead in the development of the driverless / hands - free technology that is rapidly transforming the automotive industry.»

As a minimum, when approving automated vehicle testing on public roads, manufacturers must accept that software in their vehicles attracts the same liability as the physical components of the vehicle.

Not exact matches

A Toyota Motor Corp. automated driving test vehicle enters a highway on - ramp in Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

Through research, testing, media, and advocacy, Consumer Reports and Consumers Union will continue to push all automakers to ensure their vehicles are safe, regardless of whether a human or an automated system is doing the driving.

Another prong, issued by the Federal Highway Administration, seeks to determine what is needed from an infrastructure standpoint to help support the testing and use of automated vehicles.

The group has proposed amending the bill, the AV START Act, to set standards for those vehicles - for instance, requiring a «vision test» for automated vehicles to test what their different sensors actually see.

Six years prior, he pushed for legislation encouraging testing and study of automated vehicles in Florida.

It permits, for instance, automated, or self - driving, car makers to get another one - year window in order to test their vehicles on New York roads, with various safety - related requirements; it comes after an Uber automated car killed a pedestrian in Arizona.

The company will be the first to test fully automated, or «level four» vehicles in the state, Cuomo's office said Tuesday.

«Test methods for traditionally driven cars are something like having a doctor take a patient's blood pressure or heart rate, while testing for automated vehicles is more like giving someone an IQ test,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with PTest methods for traditionally driven cars are something like having a doctor take a patient's blood pressure or heart rate, while testing for automated vehicles is more like giving someone an IQ test,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with Ptest,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with Peng.

In essence, the new accelerated evaluation process breaks down difficult real - world driving situations into components that can be tested or simulated repeatedly, exposing automated vehicles to a condensed set of the most challenging driving situations.

«Even the most advanced and largest - scale efforts to test automated vehicles today fall woefully short of what is needed to thoroughly test these robotic cars,» said Huei Peng, director of Mcity and the Roger L. McCarthy Professor of Mechanical Engineering at U-M.

This past October Sierra Nevada tested the automated landing system by dropping the Dream Chaser from a helicopter; the vehicle's approach to the runway was spot - on, although a mechanical malfunction prevented one of the wheels from deploying, sending the vehicle skidding off the runway.

NHTSA recently issued the DOT / NHTSA Federal Automated Vehicles Policy for the safe and rapid development, testing, and deployment of advanced automated vehicle safety techAutomated Vehicles Policy for the safe and rapid development, testing, and deployment of advanced automated vehicle safety techautomated vehicle safety technologies.

This presents an opportunity to test policy issues as they apply in a real world deployment of automated and connected vehicles.

NHTSA is announcing a public meeting as part of the Agency's effort to seek public comments to identify any regulatory barriers in the existing Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) to the testing, compliance certification, and compliance verification of vehicles with Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) and certain unconventional interior designs.

The FTA is currently providing research grants to test automated safety features and systems for possible use on public transportation vehicles.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is partnering with a broad coalition including industry, academia, states and local governments, safety advocates, and transportation stakeholders to encourage the safe development, testing and deployment of automated vehicle technology.

a. FMVSS No. 126 specifies the use of an automated steering machine that depends on a vehicle's steering wheel to steer vehicles when they are tested for compliance.

The Toyota Research Institute TRI constructing a closed - course test facility in Michigan to develop automated vehicle technology

Alongside the Society of Automobile Engineers, Audi intends to begin testing Level 3 automated vehicles in Albany, New York this month.

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Since March, a pool of vehicles outfitted with automated technologies has been traveling back roads and city streets as part of an internal test - drive program.

IIHS - HLDI staff have been taking vehicles outfitted with automated technologies on test drives.

Ford has already begun testing self - driving cars at the University of Michigan's Hollywood - set - style Mcity, the world's first controlled environment designed specifically for testing automated vehicles.

In 1991, Congress passed a wide - ranging transportation bill that included a provision calling for the «development of a completely automated highway and vehicle system» with testing scheduled to commence — in 1997.

Should Uber resume self - driving testing, one of the areas it's focused on is in minimizing motion sickness in automated vehicles.

• Enhanced customer satisfaction level by 60 % by introducing and implementing electronic and automated fuel efficiency enhancement techniques at the service centre • Test drove, assessed and verified 50 + old vehicles for the annual car rally, Nashua in 2012 • Diagnosed a minor leakage problem in transmission oil in a heavy vehicle and timely corrected the issue saving the engine form massive damage

For example, agreements have been finalized for a national center for connected and automated vehicle research testing, product development, validation and certification at the former Willow Run Powertrain Plant site in Ypsilanti Township, located west of Detroit.