These slides were presented on a panel by Dawn Marie Yankeelov, president of Aspectx and executive director of TALK, the Technology Association of Louisville Kentucky in August 2017.

1. A Look at Current National Legislation
Presented By:
Dawn Marie Yankeelov,
President of Aspectx, and Executive Director,
Technology Association of Louisville Kentucky

2.  Last week: Telsa developing a long-haul, electric
semi-truck that can drive itself and move in
“platoons” – self-driving tech into the electric
truck
 19 companies racing to put self-driving cars on
the road by 2020, including Google, Toyota,
Nissan
 Partnership Example In 2016:
Uber and Volvo agreed to a $300 million alliance to
develop driverless cars. Uber has made a play for
the self-driving car space by poaching staff from
Carnegie Mellon University's robotics department.

4.  Federal Automated Vehicles policy in Sept.
2016
◦ DOT Secretary Elaine Chao looking at revised report
now
 5 areas to be addressed:
 Vehicle safety standards, liability,
connectivity, and interoperability, data
management, privacy and cybersecurity
--Government Computer News, Aug. 9, 2017

5.  Number of Exemptions on what is required in a car (lift
federal cap)
 Examination of state laws because states are stepping
up in the absence of federal regs
 Autonomous measure moving through the House and
a bipartisan group in Senate planning to release major
legislative package after August recess
 Focus on safety and consumer protections—industry
would submit Safety Assessment certification
 Congress not ready to give power to NHTSA* to
require approval of developers of driverless cars
 Assessment of vulnerability of cyber attacks on car
data and movement—expect a federal advisory
committee
 --The Hill, August 7, 2017
 * National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

6.  Fast Company - Uber and Baidu are eating Ford’s
dust in the race for self-driving tech Fortune - Ford
pulls ahead of Uber and Waymo when it comes to
self-driving cars Los Angeles Times - Tesla, Uber lag
in driverless progress, study says; Ford is tops San
Francisco Chronicle - Ford, GM and Nissan Lead Self-
Driving Research The Washington Post - Who's
winning the self-driving car race? It's not the
company you think USA Today - Daimler's Mercedes,
Bosch to deliver self-driving car by 2021 USA Today -
Why your first self-driving car ride may be in a Ford
Wired - Detroit is stomping Silicon Valley in the self-
driving car race Wired UK - Ford is the leading self-
driving car manufacturer – ahead of Waymo, Tesla
and Uber