First global rules adopted for self-driving cars: UN

GENEVA (AFP) -- The first global regulations for fully autonomous vehicles were adopted Wednesday, a UN agency said, establishing uniform international safety requirements that could pave the way for larger-scale rollouts of self-driving cars. Safety concerns and the cost of developing next-level systems have long slowed progress on autonomous vehicles. As self-driving cars have begun to hit the road in a growing number of cities, the fragmented national approaches to regulation have spurred man

By The Korea Herald

First global rules adopted for self-driving cars, U.N. says

Safety concerns and the cost of developing next-level systems have long slowed progress on autonomous vehicles.