2023-07-14 04:43:43
General Motors’ (GM) request to deploy its autonomous vehicles in the United States could be answered in the coming days. Filed since 2022, the petition filed by the autonomous driving technology unit is expected to be decided soon by US regulatory bodies.
That petition requests authorization to run up to 2,500 autonomous vehicles annually without human controls, said a country’s auto safety official. In addition, the vehicles in question are also exempt from steering wheels, mirrors, turn signals or windshield wipers.
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The agency “will issue a decision in the coming weeks,” said Ann Carlson, acting administrator for National Highway Traffic Safety (NHTSA). “The central issue is deciding whether vehicles driven not by humans but by computers need to meet safety standards that are fundamentally about human drivers: requirements for mirrors, sun visors, windshield wipers and so on,” she added. .
Some vehicles equipped with Cruise’s driverless technology are offering limited service in San Francisco with a small fleet of Chevrolet Bolt vehicles. Thinking about expansion, Cruise plans to include its Origin vehicle — which has subway-like doors and no steering wheel.
Before last year’s petition, the manufacturer had already tried other ways to get this authorization; In 2018, GM asked NHTSA to allow the construction of autonomous car on Bolt without steering wheels or brake pedals on US roads; agency, in 2020, GM withdrew the petition.
In December last year, NHTSA opened an investigation into the autonomous driving system in vehicles produced by Cruise. According to the agency, these cars “may engage in inappropriate sudden braking or become immobilized”.
With information from Reuters
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