level 3 vehicles will be obliged to have an operator with a driver’s license on board the autonomous vehicle. It is in this level (level 3) that Tesla’s model S falls in. that is the reason it has not been considered as an autonomous car.

Read the full article at: telematicswire.net

Who would ever have even thought there were Tesla’s driving around with no operator on board, actually driving! Elon must be laughing at this ruling.

“the regulators have the power to control that speed” because ultimately a carmaker or ride-sharing service can’t place an illegal vehicle on the street

Read the full article at: www.latimes.com

No carmaker will build an illegal car, but some are already pushing the limits of the law to capture market share.

have no moving parts on a macro scale or a micro scale, offering significantly lower cost, higher reliability, superior performance, increased capability, smaller size and lower weight

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

We really don’t know what the winning architecture for autonomous cars, but for sure there will be sensors, the more the better. Lowering the cost may make Laser an improved option that we have today.

The shared autonomous vehicles, which will be tested at GoMentum Station this fall, operate at speeds under 25 miles per hour and will be used as first-and-last mile “people movers.”

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Public buses are used to abruptly pushing your car out of the way to get back to the main traffic lanes. Perhaps these buses will be marked driverless and cars will naturally give them space,

Passengers will have to opt in through the app to be randomly selected for a free test ride — although a human driver will still be behind the wheel

Read the full article at: www.sfgate.com

Better safe than sorry, Uber can’t afford to risk the liability by making customers “beta testers” with a driverless car. Will they ever eliminate drivers? Or maybe this is just to augment safety.