OMB Approves NHTSA Automated Driving Guidance

Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs announced that it had approved the DOT’s National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s voluntary guidance document on automated driving systems.

A similar sounding document was published by the Obama Administration last year, but that was directed at pre-deployment development of automated vehicles. That document included a very broadly worded section on cybersecurity. It will be interesting from both a system development/introduction perspective and a change in regulatory theory perspective how this document differs from the one published last year.