This is the best evidence yet that we need to get our hands off the steering wheels as soon as possible—or get rid of the steering wheels completely.
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Steering wheels were first widely used on 19th century ships.
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Or creating two different cars that both have steering wheels.
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Drivers slammed on their horns and banged on steering wheels.
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Walker uses Momo steering wheels in most of his modified cars.
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Walker uses Momo steering wheels in most of his modified cars.
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Heated steering wheels are not available on the Tesla Model 3
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It should fit steering wheels that are 14.5 inches in diameter.
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Some motorists driving past the scene ducked behind their steering wheels.
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We can expect these on-demand vehicles to come without steering wheels.
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Under current rules, Google test cars must have steering wheels and pedals.
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California regulations call for test drivers and steering wheels in autonomous vehicles.
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Both of these require steering wheels so the humans can take over.
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The missing steering wheels are manufactured in Mexico by Key Safety Systems Inc.
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The agency opened the probe after receiving three complaints about loose steering wheels.
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Cars with steering wheels that were prone to fail and cause a crash.
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However, government regulations currently require a vehicle to have steering wheels and pedals.
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Intriguingly, the Wrangler line has not been affected by the lack of steering wheels.
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Other investigations are ongoing into auto supplies markets including airbags, steering wheels and capacitors.
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On the open road, however, it may take longer before steering wheels become obsolete.
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Narrator: With fuzzy steering wheels and candy colors, the car was a nostalgic throwback.
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Chevy also posted photos of all the previous generations of the Corvette steering wheels.
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If steering wheels are no longer needed, how do we best configure seating positions?
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Many of the self-driving car prototypes are cars with no steering wheels at all.
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And transportation today depends almost as much on smartphones as it does on steering wheels.
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Ford has plans to produce road-ready cars — without steering wheels or pedals — by 2021.
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Michigan, for example, already allows cars with no steering wheels to operate on public roads.
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We can see real-time diagnostics of the steering wheels and dashboards of the cars.
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Experienced drivers are allowed to manually shift via the paddles located with the steering wheels.
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And British automaker Jaguar Land Rover hopes it's able to keep some hands on steering wheels.
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This has increasingly caused faculty and administrators to wrestle for the steering wheels of their Titanics.
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It should fit most steering wheels that fall between 14.5 inches to 15.25 inches in diameter.
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Inside, drivers might notice the blue contrast stitching on the steering wheels, seats and door trim.
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Teams customize seats and steering wheels, ensuring that controls are easy to use at racing speeds.
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They take away bags of sandwiches, or they scarf them down sitting behind their steering wheels.
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To Woo Young Moviegoers, AMC Thinks More Like McDonald's Salted pretzels the size of steering wheels.
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California has proposed draft rules requiring steering wheels and a licensed driver in all self-driving cars.
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Current federal law prohibits deployment of self-driving vehicles without steering wheels and other conventional driver controls.
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Why it matters: After 100 years, automobiles are shifting away from gasoline, steering wheels and personal ownership.
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But will everyone else trade in their steering wheels and take the risks associated with new technology?
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It still needs help from regulators to get self-driving cars without steering wheels on U.S. roads.
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I drop my daughter down curbside a line of mothers fathers steering wheels to-go cups coffee filled.
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A lot of a new car's smell comes from new fabrics and materials on steering wheels and seats.
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Researchers taught the rats how to operate copper car steering wheels built into plastic food containers on wheels.
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Some vehicles were found to have as many as 85033 buttons and applications on steering wheels and dashboards.
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He also predicted that in two years the company would be making cars without steering wheels or pedals.
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Regulators are considering allowing vehicles without manual controls, including steering wheels and pedals, to operate on U.S. roadways.
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"Interior cabin design will be radical," once design and new regulations free us from steering wheels and gas pedals.
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Tesla steering wheels are fitted with sensors that can detect when a driver's hands let go of the wheel.
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Such AVs may still have steering wheels and pedals, and be able to drive autonomously only on designated roads.
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Volvo's heated steering wheels are some of the only ones that get hot enough to be worth paying for.
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It's likely Urmson will advocate once again for autonomous cars without steering wheels, as he has in the past.
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The big picture: After more than 3003 years, automobiles are shifting away from gasoline, steering wheels and personal ownership.
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These tools are a bit like steering wheels inside the telescope that measure how fast a vehicle is turning.
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Simply put, the bill will determine the fate of traditional controls, like steering wheels and gas and brake pedals.
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Google has begun testing in Texas, where laws do not address autonomous vehicles without drivers, steering wheels or brakes.
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Arranged behind cardboard cutouts of cars, they look crammed and unnatural, their arms resting stiffly on makeshift steering wheels.
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The choice of steering wheels on the VW Golf is set to fall from 117 to a mere 43.
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Computerized leather cutters map out all the bits and pieces they need for seats, steering wheels, and door panels.
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NHTSA said Friday in a report there are significant legal hurdles to allowing fully autonomous vehicles without steering wheels.
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It could be the charming guitar pace that taps into those synapses responsible for tapping fingers on steering wheels.
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They would address the protections needed when steering wheels and steering columns have gone the way of the dodo.
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Uber is on the record about wanting to eventually deploy Level 5 autonomous vehicles, without drivers, steering wheels, or pedals.
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Instead, it will partner with existing auto manufacturers to bring its self-driving tech to cars that have steering wheels.
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U.S. TRANSPORTATION DEPT MAKES PUBLIC DETAILS OF GM PETITION TO DEPLOY VEHICLES WITHOUT STEERING WHEELS ON U.S. ROADS -- GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT
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These standards include 286 references to human drivers and mandate traditional design features such as steering wheels, displays and pedals.
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GM's Cruise subsidiary wants permission to deploy a fleet of robotaxis with no steering wheels or pedals in San Francisco.
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To enter Thrun's world of bathtubs and steering wheels is to enter a hall of diagnostic mirrors, each urging more tests.
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Unlike, General Motors, Waymo has not petitioned the federal government to allow it to test vehicles without steering wheels and pedals.
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Congress is currently considering legislation that would allow companies to manufacture and deploy cars without traditional controls like pedals and steering wheels.
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As it's tilted from side to side by the rider leaning, mechanical linkages transfer those motions to the chair's front steering wheels.
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Workers were also sent home on Wednesday from a Grand Cherokee production site in Detroit, Michigan — again, for lack of steering wheels.
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GM also issued a separate recall for about 150 Buick Encore SUVs in 2013 to address steering wheels that could come off.
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Under the club's dimmed blue lights, players frantically spin white steering wheels as they try not to fall off Rainbow Road again.
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NHTSA said in January that GM had petitioned for approval to operate up to 2,500 vehicles without steering wheels or human drivers.
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The company is also one of the world's top seatbelt producers, and makes steering wheels, electronic control units and child safety seats.
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Alphabet Inc's Google has proposed doing away with the steering wheels in autonomous vehicles because once developed they may not need them.
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Ill-fated brand extensions like the Auto Taser, a device that electrified steering wheels to prevent car theft, nearly bankrupted the company.
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Tires squeal, custom cars flip and Vin Diesel's arms spin steering wheels in this eighth film in the "Fast and Furious" series.
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On the McCain, the Navy had installed a touch-screen navigation system as a cheaper alternative to traditional steering wheels and throttles.
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Dozens of buttons, applications and connections on automobile dashboards and steering wheels create new distraction risks for drivers, passengers, pedestrians and bikers.
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The company is working toward the launch of an autonomous ride-hailing service featuring Cruise-branded vehicles without steering wheels sometime in 2019.
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Google imagined a world without steering wheels, shifters, or a brake pedal, where the inside of a car was designed just for sitting.
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And a peek through the windshield will also reveal the complete absence of traditional controls like steering wheels, foot pedals, and gear shifts.
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Leave the driving to nobody Self driving cars -- no steering wheels, brakes or gas pedals -- will be here in five years, Ford predicts.
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Google criticized California last year when the state proposed draft rules requiring steering wheels and a licensed driver in all self-driving cars.
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It incorporates PlayStation steering wheels so human drivers can inject unexpected elements into a training simulation such as reckless drivers on the road.
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Engineers and automakers are already beginning to rethink the vehicle's interior, removing steering wheels, adding bookshelves, and positioning car seats to face one another.
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The company claims its new system, codenamed Pegasus, can be used to power Level 5, fully driverless cars without steering wheels, pedals, or mirrors.
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Shore-based engineers assess data from hundreds of sensors throughout the boat while helmsmen use multi-function steering wheels to fine-tune rudder settings.
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Today, seven states — Michigan, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, Colorado, and Nevada — allow for the deployment of vehicles without steering wheels or brake pedals.
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And there are probably less school lunchboxes and vacuum cleaners engaged with Badmotorfinger and probably a few more guitars and pens and steering wheels.
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Currently, the federal government requires that all vehicles must have steering wheels and brake pedals before if they are to be sold to customers.
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These new changes to the bill would require vehicles without these traditional systems, like steering wheels, to pass all other existing occupant protection requirements.
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General Motors plans to mass-produce self-driving cars that lack traditional controls like steering wheels and pedals by 2019, the company announced today.
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This would, in turn, allow car and tech companies to flood the streets with cars that lack traditional controls like steering wheels and pedals.
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And we're going to be working to drive over the next several decades: a shift away from ownership, a shift away from steering wheels.
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He plans to sell other types of body kits (the promotional photos feature one of these, they cost extra) and racing-inspired steering wheels.
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They created a fleet of cars without brake pedals, accelerators or steering wheels, and designed to travel no faster than 25 miles an hour.
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California regulators have changed course and opened a pathway for the public to get self-driving cars that have no steering wheels or pedals.
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Auto and tech industry representatives want more leeway to manufacture and deploy vehicles that lack traditional controls, like steering wheels, sideview mirrors, and pedals.
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Since the crash, several companies - including General Motors Co - have pushed back their timetables to get driverless vehicles without steering wheels into commercial use.
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Right now, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) require cars to have basic, human controls, like steering wheels, pedals, sideview mirrors, and so on.
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Wheels In the late '80s, Ferrari engineers — never shy about taking risks — installed small paddles flanking the steering wheels on Enzo's Formula One racecars.
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The method of checking parked cars, for example, instructs drivers to always scan the steering wheels of stationary vehicles for the presence of life.
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Last year, said it plans to develop self-driving vehicles without steering wheels, though those vehicles are not expected to be ready until 2021.
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Steer clear GM's newest self-driving car doesn't have a steering wheels or pedals, because in the future, computers will drive us everywhere anyway.
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In the self-driving future envisioned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, car owners might be saying "goodbye" to a whole lot more than steering wheels.
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Most Swedes owned cars with steering wheels on the left, and drivers positioned on the outside of the road caused lots of accidents when overtaking.
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The ultimate goal is safety, but polls show that drivers are wary, if not downright reluctant, about turning over their steering wheels to a computer.
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Autoliv has typically worked on safety systems used by all major car manufacturers, including seatbelts, airbags, steering wheels and active says systems including collision avoidance.
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It may be too soon to say that Google is abandoning its plans to build a fleet of driverless cars without steering wheels and pedals.
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But even if this obstacle can be overcome, future cars will probably not take the purist form of Google's no-steering-wheels-or-brakes design.
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Last year, Ford said it plans to develop self-driving vehicles without steering wheels, though those vehicles are not expected to be ready until 2021.
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However, the agency said it needed guidelines for more advanced vehicle designs that, for example, may eliminate steering wheels and brake pedals from autonomous models.
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This can also become a game: give them a disinfecting wipe to clean light switches, steering wheels, door handles, doors and other frequently touched surfaces.
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In some places, cars with no steering wheels and no pedals are already shuttling passengers around restricted locations, like college campuses and compact downtown areas.
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Existing California regulations require self-driving test vehicles to have conventional manual controls such as steering wheels and pedals, as well as a backup driver.
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He also predicted that within two years Tesla will be making cars with no steering wheels or pedals — something current safety regulations do not allow.
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That date is significant because Ford also recently vowed to bring fully self-driving cars — cars without steering wheels or pedals — to market in 2021.
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The other additions to this platform include a new full cockpit in the front passenger seat for drive-by-wire control with steering wheels and pedals.
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That's the way courts have leaned before, Calo says, and it's likely the reason why Google is focusing on making driverless cars without steering wheels altogether.
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The mail people also say they plan to look into city deliveries and building fully driverless vehicles, the kind that don't need steering wheels or pedals.
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Rules now dictate tire integrity, roof strength, door latches, steering wheels, knee bolsters, bumpers, lights, seats, safety belts and shoulder straps, air bags, and window tinting.
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It may be too soon to say that Google is abandoning its plans to build it's own fleet of driverless cars, without steering wheels and pedals.
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GM, America's biggest carmaker, hopes to launch a robotaxi service in 2019 using autonomous Chevy Bolt cars that do not even have steering wheels or pedals.
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By amending key design standards for steering wheels and brake pedals, among others, NHTSA could help clear the path toward deployment of fully self-driving vehicles.
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They need to be provided with those disinfectant wipes for their hands and any doorknobs they need to touch — and to wipe down their steering wheels.
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General Motors said in 2018 that it would launch a fleet of cars without steering wheels or pedals in 2019; in June it changed its mind.
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In exchange, the Department of Transportation can exempt those autonomous vehicles from some federal safety requirements — including, potentially, rules that require them to have steering wheels.
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GM recently petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to allow the company to deploy a fleet of vehicles without steering wheels or pedals by 2019.
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NHTSA's Hemmersbaugh said federal regulations requiring equipment like steering wheels and brake pedals would have to be formally rewritten before Google could offer cars without those features.
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Driverless cars that are voice controlled without steering wheels and can drive anywhere under any conditions will not become a reality in the foreseeable future, he said.
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Ford plans on releasing its own self-driving cars sans steering wheels by 2021, which means all decisions will rest solely within the brain of the vehicle.
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The agency's regulatory standards, which originated in the 1960s, are centered mostly on human drivers and technologies, like the steering wheels and pedals used to operate vehicles.
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The more autonomous cars we have on the road and the fewer fallible humans handling the steering wheels and gas pedals the fewer accidents there will be.
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Foxx said that government can already exempt manufacturers from including certain features that have typically defined a vehicle, such as steering wheels, pedals, and front-facing seats.
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The driverless vehicles, some of which had no steering wheels or gas pedals, merged into traffic and stopped at stop signs, smoothly taking us to our destinations.
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The two vehicles have a lot in common: both are capped at 20193 mph, lack traditional controls like steering wheels and pedals, and are adorably egg-shaped.
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For instance, Congress would have to raise the cap on the number of vehicles that can be manufactured without standard features like steering wheels and foot pedals.
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"Probably two years from now we'll make a car with no steering wheels or pedals," Musk predicted, while acknowledging he is often late to meet aggressive targets.
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Driverless cars will slash the cost-per-mile of travelling, especially if you count the time saved by freeing people from the hours they waste clutching steering wheels.
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The billionaire entrepreneur, behind the commercial space venture SpaceX as well, also predicted that Tesla in two years will be making cars with no steering wheels or pedals.
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Renault's points haul in Japan had consolidated their fifth place in the constructors' standings, but their cars' steering wheels and electronic control units were impounded after the race.
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But research by Michael Manville and others at the University of California, Los Angeles, finds that this group are rushing onto the roads behind their own steering-wheels.
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Automakers are seeking to lift that cap to 100,000 cars in a year, which would allow them to deploy vehicles without traditional controls like steering wheels or pedals.
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Everyone knows that driving in Mario Kart is significantly easier with a steering wheel — but steering wheels are usually a luxury that nobody feels like dropping $20 on.
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Proving that plastic is stronger than paper, YouTuber vmln8r is using Lego to craft steering wheels, kickstands, and even a brand new way to take the system mobile.
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Since January, the system has been wiping down heavy traffic areas and Metrobus steering wheels daily and ensuring rail cars go through a hospital-level disinfectant process weekly.
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Rectangular steering wheels are common on concept cars but are rare on real production cars because they're awkward to use during tight maneuvers like U-turns and parking.
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Shore-based engineers assess data from hundreds of sensors throughout the boat and helmsmen use multi-function steering wheels to fine-tune hydrofoil and rudder settings during a race.
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Bringing Super Cruise to the Escalade meant recalibrating the software to handle a hulking SUV instead of the sporty sedan—and making a few more LED-studded steering wheels.
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But that doesn't make them any less fun to obsess over, especially with futuristic features like mood lighting, retractable steering wheels, and driver seats that can swivel 180 degrees.
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Among the many provisions, the new rules would allow autonomous cars without steering wheels, foot pedals, mirrors, and human drivers behind the wheel to be tested on its roads.
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They said on Thursday their new partnership will center on so-called level 3 and level 4 automated driving technologies, including cars that still require steering wheels and drivers.
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They said on Thursday their new partnership will centre on so-called level 3 and level 4 automated driving technologies, including cars that still require steering wheels and drivers.
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California has proposed barring self-driving cars that do not have steering wheels, pedals and a licensed driver ready to take over in an emergency, which Google has opposed.
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The aircraft industry is increasingly reliant on titanium as a strong but lightweight material for use in wing assemblies, steering wheels, hydraulic systems and a number of other parts.
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Ford said last week that it would have a fully autonomous vehicle — with no steering wheels or pedals — operating in a ride-hailing service like Uber within five years.
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The heavyweight has been working for years on autonomous technology and suggested it may begin testing fully driverless cars without pedals or steering wheels in the next several years.
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If you do that, you won't have to listen to the nonsense that GM, Ford and Chrysler have steering wheels on the wrong side and no dealer networks in Japan.
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From the Super Nintendo's Super Scope 703, to countless steering wheels, pedals, and flight sticks during my PC gaming years, to more fake plastic instruments than I care to admit.
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Last September, NHTSA released the first rulebook governing the manufacture and sale of self-driving cars — everything from nearly autonomous Teslas to Google cars without steering wheels or foot pedals.
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But if Feinstein sticks to her guns, it could hamper companies like GM, Ford, and others that impressed investors with their plans to do away with steering wheels and pedals.
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Once Musk took the stage, he thanked Tesla employees and then unveiled the 30 first production Model 3s and their new owners were able to get behind the steering wheels.
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NHTSA says existing regulations requiring some auto safety equipment cannot be waived immediately, including requirements for braking systems activated by foot control, for vehicles without steering wheels or brake pedals.
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The companies have, for example, fought proposals in California, Michigan and New York that would require driverless cars to be electric-powered and to contain steering wheels and brake pedals.
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We could have towed 18,000 pounds, but with our leather-wrapped heated steering wheels, chrome grilles and computer-controlled driving aids, it seemed we were selecting the Yacht of Texas.
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles will allow autonomous cars without steering wheels, foot pedals, mirrors, and human drivers behind the wheel to be tested on its roads starting next year.
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Last week, the Trump administration said it was working to revise safety rules that bar fully self-driving cars from the roads without equipment such as steering wheels, pedals and mirrors.
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What's happening: Autoliv, a major supplier of airbags, seatbelts and steering wheels, has developed a new "life cell" airbag, which provides protection regardless of how a driver or passenger is seated.
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Last week, GM filed a petition with NHTSA requesting an exemption to have a small number of autonomous vehicles operate in a ride-share program without steering wheels or human drivers.
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In January 2017, GM filed a petition with NHTSA seeking an exemption to deploy fully automated vehicles without steering wheels before the end of 2019; that petition was still under review.
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The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a preliminary investigation in October into 841,000 Ford vehicles over concerns the steering wheels may get detached while the cars are in motion.
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General Motors announced that it would also start a taxi service by the end of this year with vehicles, developed by its Cruise division, that have no steering wheels or pedals.
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From whether robot-driven cars need steering wheels to who is liable when the robot-driven car crashes, these unanswered questions are the center of ongoing debate in the transportation industry.
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There's still debate over whether steering wheels and semi-autonomous technology are actually more dangerous in self-driving cars, given that it introduces the potential of human error into the equation.
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The AV START Act would preempt those state rules and authorize automakers and tech companies to deploy (and possibly sell) thousands of vehicles without traditional controls like steering wheels and foot pedals.
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"If you have two drivers on a road with no traffic lights, no steering wheels and no brakes, who's at fault if they crash?" asks Dara Panahy of Milbank, a law firm.
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NHTSA's decision has significant implications for the autonomous-driving industry, as it could pave the way for other companies to make and use self-driving vehicles without steering wheels on public roads.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) did signal, however, that it plans to make it easier to test self-driving vehicles without pedals or steering wheels, which will keep development moving.
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The car, which is being tested in Silicon Valley by the Japanese automaker's research arm, is a Lexus LS 600hL equipped with powerful LIDAR sensors, radar, camera arrays, and two steering wheels.
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Given that self-driving cars likely won't feature steering wheels, accelerator pedals, and other traditional car features, it's understandable that a lot of thought should go into the design of the car.
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Among their many provisions, the new rules would allow autonomous cars without steering wheels, foot pedals, mirrors, and human drivers behind the wheel to be tested on its roads starting in 2018.
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HAMILTON, Bermuda (Reuters) - From water taxis that "fly" on hydrofoils to aircraft wings and cutting-edge car steering wheels, the America's Cup has produced technology with potential far beyond its "foiling" catamarans.
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Simeon was an artist with a weapon called the TOW, a missile latched to a two-mile-long wire that he guided into enemy territory with a pair of small steering wheels.
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This is a reasonable view of autonomous vehicle regulation, which won't necessarily allow people to drive in cars without steering wheels or without their attention on the road for quite some time.
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On Tuesday, the federal government released its first rulebook governing the manufacture and sale of self-driving cars — everything from nearly autonomous Teslas to Google cars without steering wheels or foot pedals.
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The system the partners produce is intended to go first into automobiles that have steering wheels and gas and brake pedals, and it will be meant to assist, rather than replace, drivers.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has requested public comment on amending the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, which says cars must have steering wheels and pedals, among other rules for automakers.
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Even so, the likes of Musk already envision a future where we'll all have chips in our brains, and they'll replace our need for keyboards, mouses, touchscreens, joysticks, steering wheels, and more.
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At the company event Monday, Musk was all too confident about carrying out autonomous robotaxis next year, even predicting that Tesla will be making cars with no steering wheels or pedals by 2021.
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Customers for the Silverado — like those for competing Ford and Ram trucks — also can order plenty of creature comforts, such as heated and cooled seats, heated steering wheels and the latest infotainment technology.
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Uconnect also includes controls for heat and A/C, heated seats and steering wheels, rear-view cameras, and is needed to power things like the vehicle's voice assistant and even the "SOS" feature.
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Tesla requires drivers using its Autopilot mode to keep their hands on the wheel, while Uber's engineers hover their hands a few inches away from the steering wheels of their self-driving vehicles.
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Those skirmishes were mere appetizers, however, for the imminent future, in which the rideshare industry actively tries to rid itself of the pesky resource hogs sitting behind the steering wheels of our Ubers.
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He only handed the reins of his business over to his two sons and chief financial officer on the eve of his inauguration, keeping his hand on the steering wheels during the campaign.
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DETROIT, June 7 (Reuters) - General Motors Co Chief Executive Mary Barra on Tuesday said she believes self-driving vehicles should keep steering wheels and brakes and accelerators in them as the technology develops.
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Tencent is joining forces with one of China's top four automobile groups, Changan Automobile, to embed WeChat Car Edition in the steering wheels of new car models hitting the market later this year.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. auto safety agency said Friday significant legal hurdles must be cleared before self-driving cars without steering wheels and gas pedals can be sold in the United States.
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Waymo said its ultimate goal was to equip its driverless system on cars without steering wheels or pedals because it didn't want humans to feel as if they needed to monitor the vehicle.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. auto safety regulator said on Tuesday it is speeding up the process for reviewing whether automakers can deploy self-driving vehicles without devices such as brakes and steering wheels.
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NHTSA said in March there are few legal hurdles to the deployment of self-driving cars with human controls, but potential "significant" hurdles to autonomous vehicles that have no steering wheels or brake pedals.
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Why it matters: The auto industry is moving away from gasoline, steering wheels and personal ownership as cities get more crowded and polluted and people look to avoid the hassles of owning a car.
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On Friday, the top U.S. safety agency said there were still significant legal hurdles to be cleared before self-driving cars without steering wheels and gas pedals could be sold in the United States.
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As more automakers develop automated driving systems that allow drivers to take their hands off the steering wheels for short periods of time, a new report says General Motors has developed the best system.
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Rogers said that Waymo has pushed the hardest for permission to deploy more vehicles that lack steering wheels, brake pedals, and other components designed with humans in mind and required by federal safety standards.
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"Even in part-time autonomous passenger cars with steering wheels, the space saved by eliminating the steering column opens up completely new possibilities for vehicle and cab interior design," Schaeffler said in a statement.
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In fully driverless mode, however, Habib and Albaisa noted vehicles could be transformed into mobile living rooms or offices, with steering wheels retracting and seats being allowed to swivel so occupants can face one another.
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Chao is reviewing a petition that GM filed in January with NHTSA requesting an exemption to have a small number of autonomous vehicles operate in a ride-share program without steering wheels or human drivers.
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"A car maker could spend a bunch of money embedding sensors into steering wheels and seats, or they could spend a lot less money integrating something maybe you're going to be wearing already," suggested Boyadjis.
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D.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) announced their intention this week to introduce legislation to update federal motor vehicle safety standards that, for example, require vehicles to be equipped with steering wheels and brake pedals.
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The embellishments, made of plastic or metal, are now attached to the steering wheels or columns of more than 200 vehicles this year, compared with fewer than 70 in 1003, according to data from Edmunds.
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Levandowski claimed to be sitting in the driver's seat for the entire 3,099-mile journey, but he says he did not touch the steering wheels or pedals, aside from planned stops to rest and refuel.
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Krafcik also noted that the Waymo team conducted the first fully driverless ride on public roads in Austin last year, using a car with no steering wheels and no pedals in "everyday traffic" on city streets.
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The tachometer is front and center on the instrument cluster, and there's a moderate amount of controls on the steering wheels, including a drive-mode selector at the lower right that mimics the famous Ferrari manettino.
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Forget autonomous cars for human passengers: Nuro just received the first exemption from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to do away with traditional driving tools like steering wheels and side mirrors for an autonomous vehicle.
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In fact, Dr. Missy Cummings, director of the Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke Robotics, said the best and safest solution would be to have all autonomous cars on the road with no steering wheels tomorrow.
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Discarding combustion engines and steering wheels entirely, these future concepts find their definition in upgrading the experience of car travel from one of a necessary inconvenience to something closer to putting your home environment on wheels.
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Nick Stockton talks to some transportation researchers who make an argument that, while perhaps true, probably makes some commuters want to smash their heads into their steering wheels over and over again: Traffic is actually good.
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California said on Tuesday it would review comments before deciding whether to make changes to the policy that aims to allow companies to test vehicles without traditional steering wheels and controls or human back-up drivers.
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Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car project, has sent a letter to US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today with a plan for selling autonomous vehicles that have no steering wheels or pedals, AP reports.
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Dream of cars with no steering wheels all you like, for example, but my guess is that in many jurisdictions, self-driving cars will have to include a legal driver among their passengers at all times.
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So drivers stopped in the pits halfway through and ditched their steering wheels, giving themselves room to hop from their spent ride into one with a fully charged battery, as their pit crew buckled them in.
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It was previously reported that Google would be dropping its plan to build its own vehicle without steering wheels and pedals, instead focusing on creating the self-driving technology that can be installed in third-party vehicles.
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Regulators and local governments are still grappling with how to regulate cars without steering wheels and pedals, and surveys indicate that most Americans don't know enough about the technology to fully understand it, much less trust it.
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Autoliv, the world's largest airbag maker, has since 13 been subject to an investigation of anti-competitive behavior among suppliers of so-called occupant safety systems - such as seatbelts, steering wheels and airbags - in the European Union.
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What is not evaporating, though, in the first weeks of the experiment on the "voies sur berges," is the anger of motorists stuck in rush-hour traffic on parallel streets, still stubbornly clinging to their steering wheels.
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In early January, GM filed a petition with NHTSA requesting an exemption to have a small number of autonomous vehicles operate in a ride-share program without steering wheels or human drivers that could begin in 2019.
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The goal of the legislation is to help the car industry speed up the deployment and testing of autonomous vehicles by gradually waiving traditional automobile standards — like steering wheels and brake pedals — for up to 80,000 vehicles.
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On Friday, G.M. said it had submitted a petition to the United States Department of Transportation seeking permission to begin operating fully autonomous cars — without steering wheels or pedals — in a commercial ride-hailing service next year.
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Danny Shapiro, senior director of automotive at Nvidia, a partner with several prominent autonomous-vehicle developers, emphasizes the crucial role of such companies in making possible the cars that will be built without pedals or steering wheels.
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The federal government should rewrite the safety rules for automobile manufacturing so self-driving carmakers can deploy vehicles without traditional controls like steering wheels and pedals, according to public comments submitted by top car and tech companies.
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The authors favor Engelbart, but the Minskians, they point out, are still with us, in the form of self-driving car manufacturers, for example, who have recently begun lobbying for the abolition of steering wheels and pedals.
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To sell more tickets, some movie theaters have introduced seats that tilt, spin and rumble to match the action on the screen, devices that spray water and pump scents and salted pretzels the size of steering wheels.
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That compares to 235,000 jobs at auto assembly plants, where those engines and transmissions and other parts — from body panels and gas tanks to seats and steering wheels — are brought together to build a car or truck.
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One reason for the increase in the cost of cars is the "trickle-down" of luxury features — heated steering wheels, for instance — to lower-end models, said Jeff Bartlett, deputy editor specializing in cars at Consumer Reports.
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Autonomous vehicles: Current federal law prohibits the deployment of self-driving vehicles without steering wheels and other conventional driver controls, and other rules for self-driving cars vary from state to state, as Axios' Joann Muller points out.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators fined five car safety equipment makers a total of 34 million euros ($40.0 million) on Wednesday for taking part in cartels to fix prices for seatbelts, airbags and steering wheels to Japanese carmakers.
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SUZUKA, Japan, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Formula One's governing body moved to seal and impound the steering wheels and electronic control units of Renault's Formula One cars on Sunday after a Japanese Grand Prix protest by rivals Racing Point.
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Levandowski says that apart from contested California regulations requiring steering wheels and pedals, there's nothing on the books banning self-driving cars as long as a human is in the vehicle (which Otto's product would always still require).
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If you have not bought a car in 10 years, you're missing auto-braking with pedestrian detection, heated steering wheels and around-view camera systems that make it seem as if a helicopter is hovering above the vehicle.
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General Motors Co in January filed a petition with U.S. regulators seeking an exemption to use vehicles without steering wheels as part of a ride-sharing fleet it plans to deploy in 2019 but has receive no decision.
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The Trump administration is moving ahead with a plan to revise safety rules barring self-driving cars from the road unless they have equipment such as steering wheels, pedals and mirrors, according to a document released publicly Thursday.
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General Motors Co in January filed a petition seeking an exemption for the current rules to use vehicles without steering wheels and other human controls as part of a ride-sharing fleet it plans to deploy in 2019.
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For example, with minimal requirements for instrument panels, steering wheels and transmission tunnels, designers will have greater freedom to craft spacious interiors at the same time they sculpt "shrink-wrapped" exteriors that hug engines, drive trains and wheels.
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Safety drivers remain behind the wheel of all of Ford's autonomous vehicles for the time being, although the company is currently building an AV without traditional controls like pedals and steering wheels, which it plans to release by 2021.
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South Korea's recent rule changes also include laying the groundwork for allowing vehicles without any steering wheels or pedals, which is part of the proposed amendments to California regulations; Michigan recently passed a law that allows for the same.
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Then on Friday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it would seek the public's opinion on an unprecedented idea: Should decades-old motor vehicle statutes be changed to allow cars with no steering wheels, pedals or gear shifts?
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The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has delayed action for 15 months on General Motors Co's request to deploy a limited number vehicles on U.S. roads without steering wheels or other human controls such as a brake pedal.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Tuesday it had fined car safety equipment makers Autoliv and TRW 368.3 million euros for setting up a cartel to supply car seat belts, airbags and steering wheels to European car producers.
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NVIDIA's automotive director Danny Shapiro said in an interview that many of the first 25 customers using the Pegasus platform would focus on robotaxis, which will be built without steering wheels or brakes and used only on dedicated routes.
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The state's Department of Motor Vehicles is seeking public comment on proposed regulations for driverless testing and public use of autonomous vehicles that will no longer be required to have conventional manual controls such as steering wheels and pedals.
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Weeks ago, Schneider instructed its truck drivers to use the wipes on steering wheels, gear shifters, door handles, and other highly touched areas of the trucks, and adopt other practices advised by the CDC, like handwashing and social distancing.
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Far-flung and deeply entrenched, thanks to more than two decades of investment under NAFTA, supply chains mean that everything from steel to steering wheels could cross the border two or three times before a vehicle ever reaches a dealer's lot.
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If the rules pass, we might see more prototypes out in the wild that lack standard features like steering wheels, pedals, and mirrors — the types of vehicles that Google and Ford have described as the ultimate future for automotive transportation.
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Musk first touted the idea of robotaxis on the company's investor day on April 22, saying Tesla would be able to offer robotaxis next year and it will be making cars with no steering wheels or pedals in two years.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A U.S. safety regulator said on Thursday it has allowed SoftBank Group-backed autonomous vehicle startup Nuro Inc to temporarily deploy up to 5,20183 low-speed electric delivery vehicles without human controls like mirrors and steering wheels.
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GM gets points for acquiring AV-oriented startups like Cruise Automation and LIDAR firm Strobe, expanding its car-sharing service Maven, and laying down clear benchmarks like launch a fleet of robot taxis without steering wheels and pedals in 2019.
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Safety drivers will remain behind the wheel of all of Ford's autonomous vehicles for the time being, although the company is currently building an AV without traditional controls like pedals and steering wheels, which it plans to release by 2021.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators will ask the public if robotic cars should be allowed on streets without steering wheels or brake pedals as they try to set the first legal boundaries for their design in the world's second largest vehicle market.
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Last October, NHTSA said it was moving ahead with plans to revise safety rules that bar fully self-driving cars from the roads without equipment such as steering wheels, pedals and mirrors but acknowledged it could be a lengthy review.
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Consumer Reports tested four of the most popular systems and says Cadillac's Super Cruise does the best job of ensuring the vehicle is driven safely while making sure drivers pay attention when they take their hands off the steering wheels.
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The report, released today, analyzed the current federal rulebook to determine how automated vehicles — both conventional-looking ones with steering wheels and foot pedals, and more conceptual ones with none of those traditional elements — would fit in the current regulatory framework.
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Uber said the new production XC90 will be assembled by Volvo Cars in Sweden and have human controls like steering wheels and brake pedals, but added it has factory-installed steering and braking systems designed for computer rather than human control.
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General Motors Co in January 2018 sought permission from U.S. regulators to deploy a ride-sharing fleet of driverless cars without steering wheels or other human controls before the end of 2019 but is still struggling to win regulatory approval.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to revise safety rules that bar fully self-driving cars from the roads without equipment such as steering wheels, pedals and mirrors, according to a document made public on Thursday.
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Uber said the new production XC90 will be assembled by Volvo Cars in Sweden and have human controls like steering wheels and brake pedals, but also with factory-installed steering and braking systems designed for computer rather than human control.
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General Motors Co in January 2018 sought permission from U.S. regulators to deploy a ride-sharing fleet of driverless cars without steering wheels or other human controls before the end of 20193, but is still struggling to win regulatory approval.
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A row of felt hoops on the wall that suggested steering wheels were, in fact, brims cut from hats, he explained, while a stack of around 20 old-time-looking driving hats — or flat caps — sat on a nearby work table.
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But the day after the report was released, the NHTSA's top administrator testified at a Senate hearing that Congress should pass a law to speed the deployment of fully self-driving cars that lack traditional controls like steering wheels and pedals.
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Waymo plans to launch a limited commercial self-driving ride hailing service in Arizona before the end of the year, while GM has asked NHTSA for approval to launch a similar service next year in vehicles without steering wheels or brake pedals.
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Basically, the proposed bill would make it possible for companies including Ford, Waymo, GM's Cruise and others to bypass some safety standards that currently apply to human piloted cars, including requirements like that they have steering wheels and gas pedals on board.
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Today, the Toyota Research Institute, the Silicon Valley-based arm of the biggest carmaker in the world, unveiled the latest version of its autonomous vehicle, featuring better sensors, improved detection, and two steering wheels to better transfer control from human to robot.
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Those who expect us to simply sell off our cars and board up our garages because of the emergence of new industries like self-driving cars and ride-sharing may be disappointed in the strength in which we cling to our steering wheels.
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We're definitely going to see these limited experiments spread to more locations in 2018 and 2019, and by 2020, we're going to start to see some of the first autonomous cars without traditional controls like steering wheels and foot pedals hit the streets.
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"I'm writing to ask GM to make Chevy's Volt and Bolt more eco-friendly by giving buyers the option to choose vegan leather interiors—including steering wheels and gear shifts," wrote the bendy Briton in an open letter addressed to CEO Mary Barra.
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NHTSA spokesman Gordon Trowbridge said a report being released Friday shows there are relatively few legal hurdles to the deployment of self-driving cars with human controls, but there are potentially "significant" hurdles to autonomous vehicles with no steering wheels or brake pedals.
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WASHINGTON, March 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it was seeking public comment on General Motors' 15-month-old petition seeking approval to deploy a limited number vehicles on U.S. roads without steering wheels or other human controls.
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It gets tiring waving at them all—stressed-out, wrinkled accidents of the human form, with white hair, or no hair, or nubby yellow sun visors, grimacing, hunched over their steering wheels, as if they were being chased by men with guns.
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He clambered into some with an invitation for this reporter to shoehorn himself in alongside, the better to appreciate their carbon fiber innards, Bakelite steering wheels and the assorted details that, the designer said, have consistently found their way into his designs.
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No driver would be surprised with this configuration, but while other automakers have started to update their multifunction steering wheels and instrument clusters for 21st-century duty, Nissan is entering the third decade of the millennium with a vibe that's still circa 1998.
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Living In 9 Photos View Slide Show ' Through the years, Hudson Square has been a place to print books, broadcast radio shows and wobble through pub crawls, not to mention to slam steering wheels in frustration at backups in the Holland Tunnel.
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No driver would be surprised with this configuration, but while other automakers have started to update their multifunction steering wheels and instrument clusters for 21st century duty, Nissan is entering the third decade of the millennium with a vibe that's still circa 1998.
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Vimal Patel created a short video showing a handful of genuinely useful Nintendo Switch hacks using Lego Technic pieces, including a vastly improved kickstand, a better approach to mounting the Switch's Joy-Cons, and a pair of steering wheels for mastering Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
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Mario Kart Arcade GP VR will run off an HTC Vive headset, with players controlling the action in Mario Kart-styled arcade chairs with built-in steering wheels for driving and motion controller wrist bands to allow you to actually throw items at your opponents.
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One of the bills in the proposal would allow the U.S. Transportation Department to exempt up to 100,000 vehicles per year from U.S. federal motor vehicle safety rules, which currently prevent the sale of self-driving vehicles without steering wheels, pedals and other human controls.
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That's why NACTO recommends that the US move directly to shared, fully autonomous vehicles—the kinds without steering wheels—which move at a maximum of 25 mph when there are people around (the magic number to keep those people alive, should they ever be hit).
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Remember that only a few months ago, California's Department of Motor Vehicles released their own draft rules on autonomous vehicles, which required that self-driving cars have human-focused features like steering wheels as well as a licensed driver in the vehicle at all times.
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NHTSA spokesman Gordon Trowbridge said a new agency report released Friday showed there were relatively few legal hurdles to the deployment of self-driving cars with human controls, but there were potentially "significant" hurdles to autonomous vehicles that have no steering wheels or brake pedals.
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The auto industry is headed toward what could be its most transformative period in the past century, as electric vehicles appear set to eventually replace their gas-powered counterparts and self-driving technology has the potential to one day eliminate the need for steering wheels.
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Siri plus maps plus autonomous driving add up to a car that would be radically different from what we've had for a century: steering wheels and pedals and the need for the driver to be more or less constantly engaged with the driving experience.
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Aspiring to so-called level 5 autonomy — meaning the car should theoretically be able to completely operate itself with no active human control — Audi has decided to do away with pesky things like steering wheels and brakes that would otherwise clog up the Aicon.
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" We do technically have a few, running in a closed pilot project in Phoenix, courtesy of Waymo, but that's not what Ford was talking about: "Self-driving Fords that have no steering wheels, brake or gas pedals will be in mass production within five years.
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For the moment, at least, there's no single, overarching, autonomous-vehicle-specific law on the federal government's books — nothing that says where companies can test their tech and what sort of safety standards might apply in vehicles that someday might not even have steering wheels.
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Another Republican proposal would allow the government to designate as many as 100,000 self-driving cars to be exempt from existing federal motor safety rules, even though those guidelines — which govern everything from steering wheels to airbags — were written many years before that technology existed.
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At L.A. auto show, carmakers are pushing their tech, not their cars Why it matters: The auto industry is moving away from gasoline, steering wheels and personal ownership as cities get more crowded and polluted and people look to avoid the hassles of owning a car.
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Tesla even sells a Radio Flyer-made kids version of the Model S. More esoteric offerings have sometimes quickly come and gone, too, like a Tesla-branded surfboard, or jackets made of leftover leather (before the company stopped using the material in all but its steering wheels).
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In what appeared to be a win for Google's self-driving car project, NHTSA said it could exempt up to a few thousand vehicles from regulations that require steering wheels and brake pedals for testing, but would need a change in law to permanently change the rules.
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This legislation also has the power to determine what these vehicles look like in the future, allowing for automakers to manufacture vehicles without steering wheels, gas, and brake pedals so long as the Department of Transportation exempts them from the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS).
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The bill, called the SELF DRIVE Act, would permit automakers and tech giants to obtain exceptions to federal safety rules — the official U.S. standards that govern everything from steering wheels to seat belts — so that they can test as many as 100,000 experimental vehicles over time.
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To get big faster, younger unicorns start buying startups sooner At some point in the future, while riding along in a car, a kid may ask their parent about a distant time in the past when people used steering wheels and pedals to control an automobile.
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However, Musk predicted earlier this year that Tesla will be able to make cars with no steering wheels or pedals — which would have no need for a human driver at all — within two years, though some experts are still skeptical that Tesla can make that timeline work.
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Instead of trying to manage the handoff between machine and man, Google decided to keep at it until the company had a vehicle that could handle every bit of the driving — so much so, in fact, that later prototypes didn't even have steering wheels or brake pedals.
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The new rules would allow human drivers and steering wheels to be entirely absent from test vehicles, provided the cars have two-way communication and NHTSA approval to operate, which requires adherence to the 15-point checklist proposed by the federal highway safety agency in guidelines revealed last month.
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Attorneys and witnesses proposed analogies for implementing code that seems bizarre — the APIs in question were compared to filing cabinets, hamburgers, electrical outlets, steering wheels, and even the Harry Potter series over the course of the two-week trial — but the strange comparisons ultimately had the desired effect.
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The I.D. Vizzion's 'digital chauffeur' feature is the most far-flung of those tech showcases: It will take full control of the car, without any visible controls, steering wheels or pedals, and it'll learn more about its users and occupants over time thanks to an AI-powered virtual 'host.'
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General Motors Co in January filed a petition with U.S. regulators seeking an exemption for the current rules to use vehicles without steering wheels and other human controls as part of a ride-sharing fleet it plans to deploy in 2019, but has receive no decision to date.
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The automaker, which has been busy testing its self-driving cars on the city streets of San Francisco, has filed a petition to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asking the agency to allow the company to deploy driverless cars that do not have steering wheels or brake pedals by 2019.
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Specifically, factory workers can log details into the MOS about whether or not the body of a Model 3 is completely assembled, whether specific items have been installed (such as steering wheels, air bags or rocker mold), and the torque levels used on factory equipment to put the Model 3s together.
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In the U.S., testing is being conducted by Uber on a fairly large scale in Pittsburgh, for instance, and California is licensing companies for road testing, as well as considering edits to its rules for said testing that would allow for testing in vehicles which lack steering wheels and manual driving controls entirely.
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Although today's experimental vehicles are modified versions of ordinary cars, with steering wheels that eerily turn by themselves, future AVs will have no steering wheel or pedals and will come in all sorts of shapes and sizes; pods capable of carrying six or eight people may prove to be the most efficient design.
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A major study of distracted driving by the University of Utah, for the American Automobile Association found that dashboards and steering wheels are often crammed with new technology such as social media, entertainment and texting and email access, causing drivers to take their eyes of the road for dangerously long periods of time.
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Ford says it's going to deliver self-driving cars by 2021 – and these will ship in volume, and will also lack steering wheels, brake or gas pedals, offering full Level 4 self-driving features which don't require a human driver at all, the company announced at a press conference in Palo Alto today.
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The package of bill includes a proposal to increase federal motor vehicle safety standard (FMVSS) exemption caps from 2,500 to 100,000 — which is a wonky way of saying that it would allow automakers and tech firms to test (and eventually deploy) autonomous vehicles without steering wheels, brake pedals, and other components designed with humans in mind and required by federal safety standards.
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The hollow carbon wings are 24 meters tall and have an area of 101 square meters * Key differences include the structure of the wing, "fairings", which improve aerodynamics and limit drag, the size and shape of the curved foil blades and the hydraulic systems * The boats are sailed by a crew of six and steered with high-tech steering wheels.
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I keep thinking back to Elon Musk musing during a media call, as only Elon Musk can, that perhaps the fully autonomous cars of the future will have I, Robot-style retractable steering wheels: retracted for relaxed highway journeys when the car is in control, extended for when you want to have some fun on a twisty, back-country road.
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This contrasts with Ford's vision of putting cars without steering wheels or brakes on the road by 2021, but presumably if true level 4 or 5 autonomy is achieved via the partnership, manual controls would be optional for OEMs Part of the goal of the union is to reduce the cost for carmakers, Mobileye CTO Ammon Shashua explained on the call.
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Yet, members of Congress, encouraged to do so by auto and tech lobbyists, have proposed bipartisan bills that would let industry roll out automated cars more quickly by exempting them from existing safety regulations, like those that govern the performance of steering wheels, airbags and brakes, and by directing the Department of Transportation to come up with new rules instead.
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The race did indeed produce excitement, but it came in the form of an unexpected controversy about the season's new ban on radio communications between teams and their drivers: Two of the drivers most likely to finish on the podium failed to do so because they were bogged down for several laps as they struggled to figure out for themselves which buttons to press on their steering wheels to get the right settings.
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Gary PetersGary Charles PetersFBI Agents Association calls on Congress to make 'domestic terrorism' a federal crime Senators renew request for domestic threats documents from FBI, DOJ after shootings Overnight Defense: Dems talk Afghanistan, nukes at Detroit debate | Senate panel advances Hyten nomination | Iranian foreign minister hit with sanctions | Senate confirms UN ambassador MORE (D-Mich.), would help the car industry speed up the deployment and testing of autonomous vehicles by gradually waiving traditional automobile standards -- like steering wheels and brake pedals -- for up to 80,2023 vehicles per manufacturer after three years.
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Gary PetersGary Charles PetersFBI Agents Association calls on Congress to make 'domestic terrorism' a federal crime Senators renew request for domestic threats documents from FBI, DOJ after shootings Overnight Defense: Dems talk Afghanistan, nukes at Detroit debate | Senate panel advances Hyten nomination | Iranian foreign minister hit with sanctions | Senate confirms UN ambassador MORE (D-Mich.), would help the car industry speed up the deployment and testing of autonomous vehicles by gradually waiving traditional automobile standards — like steering wheels and brake pedals — for up to 80,000 vehicles per manufacturer after three years.
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Gary PetersGary Charles PetersFBI Agents Association calls on Congress to make 'domestic terrorism' a federal crime Senators renew request for domestic threats documents from FBI, DOJ after shootings Overnight Defense: Dems talk Afghanistan, nukes at Detroit debate | Senate panel advances Hyten nomination | Iranian foreign minister hit with sanctions | Senate confirms UN ambassador MORE (D-Mich.), would help the car industry speed up the deployment and testing of autonomous vehicles by gradually waiving traditional automobile standards -- like steering wheels and brake pedals -- for up to 80,000 vehicles per manufacturer after three years.
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