Consumer safety advocates express concern over promotion of robotic technology at the expense of safety standards. Cite Tesla crash as failure by safety regulator.
In a letter to National Highway Traffic Administration (NHTSA) Administrator Mark Rosekind last week, auto safety advocates from the Center for Auto Safety and Consumer Watchdog expressed concern that NHTSA was promoting the deployment of self-driving robot car technology instead of developing adequate safety standards for the new technology.
The letter to Rosekind from Joan Claybrook, former NHTSA administrator and President Emeritus of Public Citizen; Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety; Carmen
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