With the money going into the autonomous car research and development, I would guess that there will enough thrown around to cause some federal regulation once a few states have started to enact their own thing. Of course, some one somewhere will figure out a reason that "that those self-drivin dohickies are gonna go skynet on us and take our jerbs!" Which will probably be the real reason for federal regulation - just to clear up the mixed state law problems.theholycow wrote:Consider varying oversized load regulations and permitting. I live near the state line on a road where oversized loads are hauled. I constantly see them parked roadside for days or sometimes weeks while they wrangle permits. At least, I assume that's what they're up to. I'd say more days than not, there's a huge load parked on the shoulder or in a local parking lot.Rope-Pusher wrote:short-term permit to drive on their roads?
But yeah, there are plenty of Federal standards and even laws and this stuff could end up among them, but even if not it's likely to be reasonably uniform...as long as it's not cuneiform.
Or I'm feeling cynical this morning. Either way.
