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PITTSBURGH – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that local communities across the country will receive nearly $65 million in grants to support advanced technology transportation projects. Secretary Foxx will join President Obama at the White House Frontiers Conference on...
Automotive technology is at a moment of rapid change and may evolve farther in the next decade than in the previous 45-plus year history of the Agency. As the automobile industry moves toward fully automated (self-driving) vehicles and other innovative mobility solutions, NHTSA seeks to...
This fact sheet identifies potential new tools, authorities and resources that could aid the safe deployment of new automated technologies by enabling DOT to be more nimble and flexible. Some of the identified tools could be created under current law while others would require Congressional...
This fact sheet summarizes how existing regulatory tools will be used to promote the safe development and deployment of automated vehicles, including interpretations, exemptions, notice-and-comment rulemaking, and defects and enforcement authority.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Automated Vehicles Policy, published September 2016.
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) conducts research, oversight, and stakeholder engagement activities related to Automated Vehicles (AVs) in our national transportation system. America Leads: DOT's National Strategy for Automated Vehicles communicates the Department’s unified...