before developing any new federal standards cliff said nhtsa wants to to better understand how driverassist and autonomous technology should performwashington the new head of the governments road safety agency says it will intensify efforts to understand the risks posed by automated vehicle technology so it can decide what regulations may be necessary to protect drivers passengers and pedestrians in an interview wednesday steven cliff who was confirmed last month as head of the national highway traffic safety administration said the agency is assessing crash data recently reported by automakers and tech companies advt any new regulations nhtsa may impose would fill what critics say is an urgent need to address the growing use of driver assisted systems on us roads the systems have been linked to crashes involving deaths and serious injuries though they also have enormous potential to prevent crashes there are no federal regulations that directly cover either selfdriving vehicles or those with partially automated driverassist systems such as teslas autopilot before developing any new federal standards cliff said nhtsa wants to to better understand how driverassist and autonomous technology should perform cliff spoke wednesday to the associated press in his first ontherecord interview since being confirmed by the senate he said that when he first joined the agency in february 2021 he was surprised to discover that nhtsa had no data on automated vehicle crashes as a result cliff said he challenged the agency to require such reporting last month nhtsa released data from july 2021 to may concluding that automated vehicles were involved in nearly 400 crashes ap published on jun 30 2022 at 0920 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app self driving cars international autonomous cars national highway traffic safety administration car crash data homenewsauto technologynew nhtsa chief agency to scrutinize autodriver technology