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Although Tesla’s autopilot and fully autonomous driving have been defended, Germany does not entirely oppose the concept of autonomous vehicles. or componently automated vehicle landscape.
According to a report by local media The Local DE, some German politicians, adding Chancellor Angela Merkel, met this week and agreed that the country plays a “pioneering role” in regulating autonomous vehicles.
The first step the country will take to this end is to draft laws, if any.
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The law is expected to make Germany “the first country in the world to allow driverless cars in normal service nationwide. “
It is too early to say what this law will look like in practice, or when it will become mandatory, but politicians have explained its sites in 2022.
This is ambitious while top critics say fully autonomous cars are in at least five to ten years, at least in spaces of low driving complexity. However, regulating the generation before it enters the mass market can simply announce a safer technique and eliminate the ethical and legal shadows in which systems such as Tesla’s autonomous driving operate.
It will be more of a question about whether Germany’s bureaucratic processes can stick to this timetable, than whether the generation will be in a position until 2022.
In July, Germany said it was drafting a law to allow tier four autonomous vehicles.
“The new planned legal framework creates the preconditions in the existing legislative era to allow the popular operation of self-driving and driverless motor cars on public roads, geographically limited to an explained environment,” the German Ministry of Transport said at the time.
It turns out that with the latest news, Germany is giving up its position and embarking on regulating point five driverless vehicles, or making even more noise without a real result.
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Last month, the UK government took a small but valid step towards regulating autonomous cars through a consultation procedure on Level 2 Automated Lane Maintenance Systems (ALKS).
It appears that the two countries are taking other approaches to regulating automated vehicle technology.
As Germany goes directly to the most sensible and seeks to allow completely driverless cars, Britain is moving up and down and regulating the Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) generation until it reaches point five at some point in the long run, assuming driverless cars become one thing.
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