The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is committed to facilitating a new era of transportation innovation and safety and ensuring that our country remains a leader in automation. It is acting as a convener and facilitator, partnering with a broad coalition of industry, academic, states and local, safety advocacy, and transportation stakeholders to support the safe development, testing, and deployment of automated vehicle technology.
Recently, the DOT put out a request for public comment on the document, Preparing for the Future of Transportation: Automated Vehicles 3.0 (AV 3.0). This document builds upon Automated Driving Systems: A Vision for Safety 2.0 and expands the scope to all surface on-road transportation systems, and was developed through the input from a diverse set of stakeholder engagements, throughout the Nation.
AV 3.0 is structured around three key areas:
- Advancing multi-modal safety,
- Reducing policy uncertainty, and
- Outlining a process for working with DOT
The DOT sees AV 3.0 as the beginning of a national discussion about the future of our on-road surface transportation system. Submit public comments on AV 3.0 by December 3, 2018. See the Federal Register notice here.
