How to make self-driving cars safe. Rules and regulations.

Last year, a Florida man became the first person to die in a crash involving autonomous driving technology. Forty-year-old Joshua Brown had his hands off the wheel when his car slammed into a semi-trailer making a left turn across his lane. The incident caused considerable consternation in the media, not the least for underlining the glaring absence of autonomous vehicle (AV) regulations then in place. "The fatal crash," the Los Angeles Times said, "highlighted what some say is a gaping pothole on the road to self-driving vehicles: the lack of federal rules." The newspaper had a point.