James C. Owens, Chief Legal and Policy Officer, Nuro, Inc.
Executive Summary: This article outlines a comprehensive strategy to modernize the United States’ regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles (AVs), emphasizing the dual goals of advancing safety and sustaining American leadership in AV innovation. It lays out a summary case for Federal regulators to pursue a strategy using existing statutory authorities to integrate AVs fully into the new vehicle fleet in a way that promotes safety, accelerates development, and provides the regulatory certainty necessary to make the investments to manufacture those future vehicles at scale.
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