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Self-driving car laws at a glance

Self-driving car tech is moving fast -- so fast the laws haven't had time to catchup.

Tibi Puiu by Tibi Puiu
August 11, 2016
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You might have read quite a few stories about driverless cars in the media. Cars like the Tesla’s Model S which can drive itself in ‘autopilot’ mode on highways offer a glimpse of what’s to come. We’re still not there yet, but the technology is developing fast. So fast that in many parts of the world the status of legal cars hits a gray area.

Since the beginning of 2012, 17 states and the District of Columbia have debated legislation regarding authorizing self-driving cars on their roads. However, only California, Florida, Nevada, and Washington, D.C. have actually enacted any such laws.

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However, that doesn’t mean that cars with automated features or even fully self-driven are illegal. For instance, most states’ laws require a human being ‘operating’ a vehicle. It’s in the specifics like which tasks have to be operated by the human, and which can be taken over by the vehicle itself that things stop being clear. That’s because these laws were written in a time when a car driving itself was deemed preposterous. Using loopholes, Google managed to log millions of miles with its self-driving cars on California’s roads.

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Soon, policy and laws will change to meet the rapidly evolving future. Until then, here’s where self-driving cars stand in this quick infographic.

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Tibi Puiu

Tibi is a science journalist and co-founder of ZME Science. He writes mainly about emerging tech, physics, climate, and space. In his spare time, Tibi likes to make weird music on his computer and groom felines.

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