Do you know if autonomous vehicle testing takes place in your city?Unless you’ve noticed cars with gadgets attached to them, you probably have no idea. On Wednesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) presented a tool that assistance answers this and other similar issues, as well as providing useful data on the prestige of autonomous driving projects across the country.
Earlier this year, NHTSA partnered with several organizations to gather the knowledge needed to create the Automated Vehicle Transparency and Safe Testing (AV TEST) tool, although the purpose of the program is to create a platform for the entire government bureaucracy to gather a percentage of knowledge in automated vehicle projects, this online tool is also designed to build transparency and build public trust in VA.
Visual data in the tool includes the location of audiovisual tests, the company conducting the tests, the types of roads on which the vehicle is allowed to be tested and the type of vehicle used for testing (cars, heavy trucks, shuttles). distribution robots, etc. ). Companies can also draw lines or spaces where cars will be tested.
You can use the tool directly from the NHTSA website.
Vehicle locations are plotted on an interactive map of the US. But it’s not the first time
In addition to marking the control places on a MAP of the US, it is not the only one that has been able to do so. Usa, the tool also provides useful links to national regulations and regulations related to audiovisual verification on the road so visitors can better perceive how they are performed. corporations involved in verification, adding protection information, case studies and first aid guides.
However, it is vital not to forget that this program itself is voluntary, so the data reflected in the tool does not describe 100 percent what is happening on the streets of your city, although companies, towns and states are encouraged. to provide knowledge in the standardized format, they are not required to do so according to regulatory guidelines, so the knowledge demonstrated in the online tool can only demonstrate 10 AV equipment tested in your garden, while there may be only 20 of them, or even only 3 if the knowledge has not been updated.
Nine corporations adding Uber, Waymo, GM/Cruise, Toyota, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Beep, Local Motors Industries, Navya and Nuro) and 10 states adding Arizona, California, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas and Utah all agreed to provide data.
NHTSA says the tool is meant to be “updated frequently” as more corporations are incorporated and more fields of knowledge are added.
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