General Motors Co. is running into opposition to its petition to federal regulators for permission to put up to 5,000 driverless cars — without steering wheels or control pedals — on public roads.
Jason Levine, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, said GM’s petition of 97 pages, and 78 footnotes, failed to demonstrate its fully self-driving cars match the safety levels required for human-operated vehicles.
AAA’s managing director of government relations and traffic safety advocacy, Jill Ingrassia, urged NHTSA to carefully consider the merits of GM’s proposal, noting that polls consistently show the driving public is skeptical about self-driving cars.
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