Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev...
by Retric on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:52PM
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Your right. I have read that human override is still mandatory at level 4.
However it looks like this just changed: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2022-03/Final-Ru...
“For vehicles designed to be solely operated by an ADS, manually operated driving controls are logically unnecessary.29 To account for this, the NPRM proposed a regulatory scheme in which the affected standards would not assume that a vehicle will always have a driver’s seat, a steering wheel and accompanying steering column, or just one front outboard passenger seating position.”
They are apparently allowing level 4 Taxi to be considered full ADS even if they have additional “Stowed controls” options.
Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev...
by Dylan16807 on Friday August 04, 2023 @03:11PM
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Glad they agree but I'd say the street legality of a vehicle is a separate issue from the self-driving level.
Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev...
by Retric on Friday August 04, 2023 @06:14PM
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These levels come from the US’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration formal definition in 2013. It’s been updated a few times since then with SAE introducing an extra level in 2014, but the point was really a formal definition for regulation.
https://unece.org/DAM/trans/doc/2013/wp29grsp/WP.29-161-18e....
Level 4 cars need a steering wheel to be generally useful. But a limited vehicle like a taxi doesn't need a wheel, no matter whether it's 4 or 5.
I agree with the rest of what you said. Geofencing entire continents isn't about driving ability, and blizzards are an acceptable human-level restriction.