Technology readiness levels

Waymo keeps running into things and now NHTSA is investigating. Fred proposes a graduated licensing process for autonomous vehicles. 60 minutes Australia compiles a list of Elon Musk stating how self driving is ready next year but that next year never comes... maybe he's just a salesman? Tesla's automation software has been involved in 467 crashes, 13 of them fatal... and that is just in a 15 month period. Keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road.

This weeks links:

• https://www.autosafety.org/av-bill-of-rights/
• https://www.autosafety.org/support-us/
• https://ieeetv.ieee.org/channels/ssit/self-driving-cars-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly
• https://apnews.com/article/selfdriving-vehicles-automated-government-investigations-0b43be102688f66590e6b9e76c0f5939
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2024/INOA-PE24016-12382.pdf
• https://www.getcruise.com/news/blog/2024/cruise-resumes-supervised-autonomous-driving-with-safety-drivers/
• https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-autopilot-probe-us-prosecutors-focus-securities-wire-fraud-2024-05-08/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcHtagqxPkI
• https://www.nicb.org/news/news-releases/new-report-imports-top-list-americas-most-stolen-vehicles
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V321-1338.PDF
• https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V318-2050.PDF
• https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:d3f5e019-b65e-11ec-b6f4-01aa75ed71a1.0001.01/DOC_1&format=DOC
• https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:d3f5e019-b65e-11ec-b6f4-01aa75ed71a1.0001.01/DOC_2&format=DOC
• https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-20-48g