The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened the door for self-driving vehicles to operate without manual controls ... passengers as other cars. NHTSA acknowledged uncertainty ...

This isn’t exactly a straightforward process as the NHTSA noted there will likely be ... the rules need to be adapted to allow for vehicles with manual controls, fully automated controls and ...

Autonomous vehicles in the US are not required anymore to be equipped with manual driving controls such as steering wheels and pedals, as NHTSA is eliminating that rule for its crash standards ...

Today, autonomous vehicles that have all their manual parts are allowed to operate on public roads without oversight from NHTSA. But any AVs that can’t be taken over by a human driver have to ...

NHTSA said existing regulations do not currently bar deploying automated vehicles as long as they have manual driving controls, and as it continues to consider changing other safety standards ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wants to be ready for the ... to ADS-equipped vehicles without traditional manual controls. The final rule clarifies that, despite ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced it will be investigating manual transmissions on 2011 and 2012 Ford Mustangs due to a number of owner complaints.

In other words, there’s nothing about the manual transmission used in the Ford Mustang that would prompt the NHTSA (or Ford) to issue a recall. The agency did cite Ford’s findings that the ...

San Francisco, March 13 (IANS) The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened the door for self-driving vehicles to operate without manual controls under updated Federal ...