Balough Pens Article on Driverless Car Legal Issues

(May 27, 2016) What advice attorneys need to give their clients on driverless cars is explored in an article by Richard C. Balough published by the American Bar Association’s Business Law Today. The age of autonomous vehicles is coming soon. You may soon be seeing vehicles on the road with no drivers as part of […]
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Google’s Driverless Car Requires Driver, Federal Agency Says

(February 15, 2016) A driverless car does not have a human behind the wheel, which creates a problem for complying with various federal safety standards designed for vehicles with human drivers. The self-driving vehicles (SDV) being developed by Google, Inc. lack, among other things, steering wheels, accelerators, and brake pedals because the cars are controlled […]
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DOT to Propose Rules to Speed Up Deployment of Autonomous Vehicles

(January 14, 2016) In an effort to speed the development of autonomous vehicles, in the next six months the U.S. Department of Transportation will prepare proposed rules for their deployment and operation. U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx made this announcement at the Detroit Auto Show. The push for new regulations is part of the White House’s […]
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