Feds issue first self-driving vehicle guidelines

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.outlines his department's intial guidelines for regulating autonomous vehicles. Federal safety regulators will issue a broad framework today for developing, testing and deploying autonomous vehicles, which are coming to market before undergoing many tests human-driven cars must meet before they are offered to consumers. The framework contained four sections -- vehicle performance guidance, a model state policy, current regulatory tools and modern regulatory tools. The Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will listen to public and industry comment for the next 60 days. In addition to the four sections, DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx discussed what he called a 15-point safety assessment that will govern how NHTSA proceeds in the uncharted territory, where software, not humans, operates vehicles.