Automotive News: Fiat Chrysler diesels spew excess pollution, VW sleuths report, U.S. senators unveil road map for self-driving car legislation
Fiat Chrysler diesels spew excess pollution, VW sleuths report
Fiat Chrysler diesel vehicles spewed pollution as much as 20 times the legal limit, according to testing by the same researchers who first recorded the excess emissions in Volkswagen AG’s diesel cheating scandal. read more »
U.S. senators unveil road map for self-driving car legislation
A bipartisan trio of U.S. senators said on Tuesday they planned to introduce legislation to remove regulatory roadblocks to the introduction of self-driving cars, including sorting out conflicts between state and federal rules.
Republican Senator John Thune, who chairs the Commerce Committee, Bill Nelson, the top Democrat on the panel, and Senator Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat, said in a joint statement that existing federal vehicle regulations written over recent decades did not account for self-driving cars without a human driver behind the wheel.
Thune said the senators hoped to reach agreement based on "prioritizing safety, fixing outdated rules, and clarifying the role of federal and state governments."
Federal auto regulations pose significant legal hurdles that must be cleared before fully self-driving cars can be sold without steering wheels and gas pedals, a government report said last year. read more »
