Posted on 01/14/2016 12:57:51 PM PST by Citizen Zed
The Obama administration is taking a $4 billion gamble on self-driving cars as the vehicles of the future.
This past Thursday at the Detroit Auto Show, Department of Transportation secretary Anthony Foxx unveiled a plan to develop a legal framework for autonomous driving technology that would encourage consistent rules across all 50 states. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will be in charge in drafting the framework.
Although the federal government can dictate manufacturing regulations, non-interstate highway traffic laws are left to the states. California, Nevada, Michigan and Florida have their own respective regulations on self-driving cars, creating a rough patchwork of rules.
Foxx also announced that President Obama will put in around $3.9 billion into the 2017 budget for a 10-year plan to support the development of autonomous driving technology.
"We're entering a new world here, and we know it," said Foxx during the press conference, flanked by representatives from Google, General Motors and other companies in the self-driving car race. "We ask ourselves what if human error could be eliminated? That is a possibility worth pursuing."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
investing?? do we as US citizens and owners of those funds get a RETURN on this so called investment? are we in it for the losses as well?
What if I like driving my car?
I'll keep my 'manual', thanks.
spending money the gubment can do...Investing it?? I don’t think thats even constitutional
when will these authors learn the language anyway?
He has been curiously in the car business from the get-go. He had the Cash for Clunkers deal, remember? What kind of scheme is behind all of this?
It cost trillions to drive us cray
What’s wrong with Google investing its own money?
I guess the idea of cheap, affordable personal transportation will be a thing of the past. The KISS principle is being thrown out, this will usher in the end of the auto age and not oil shortages.
http://makezine.com/2016/01/11/self-driving-cars-are-so-2015-get-there-self-flying-copter/
Self-Driving Cars Are So 2015: Get There in a Self-Flying ‘Copter
The Feds should be prohibited from doing this. Period.
Is this going to be like solar power, and Solyndra? Or like Obamacare?
No matter how good the concept, this bunch of turkeys will manage to muff it up beyond all recognition.
Whatever you do, do not create any enterprise that might be PROFITABLE, because if anybody but the chosen few gains from its implementation, then that means the “wrong people” will be rewarded.
ahahahahaha
investing?? do we as US citizens and owners of those funds get a RETURN on this so called investment?
NO
are we in it for the losses as well?
YES
It is NOT government’s role to push cancer cures, self-driving cars, health care, energy solutions or any other product nor to supervise education.
Government’s role is to enforce the Constitution, ensure our safety, take care of infrastructure, fiscal policy (arguably) and other things ONLY government can do.
I am damn tired of overreach.
Government pissing away our money, and picking winners and losers, again.
Is this what we left England for?
“we will have to drive ...er Ride In Them... before we Know whats In Them” Nancy Pelosee!!
Investing? More like, again, handing out taxpayer money to his cronies. How much taxpayer money will Elon Musk be receiving?
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