The bipartisan, five-year surface transportation reauthorization bill released May 17 — the BUILD America 250 Act — included details on the typical investment programs for U.S. roads, bridges, rail transportation and motor carrier safety programs.
For the first time, however, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee included a federal policy framework regulating the deployment of self-driving trucks, winning plaudits from the industry.
The framework — Safe Integration of Autonomous Commercial Motor Vehicles — would create a performance-based safety standard for commercial motor vehicles equipped with automated driving systems (ADS).
Manufacturers of Level 4 or Level 5 autonomous vehicles would be required to assume the duties usually taken on by a human driver in real time when the ADS is active.
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