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Volvo Cars calls for US national framework for regulation and testing of autonomous driving

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In a speech to be delivered Thursday at a seminar on self-driving cars organized by Volvo Cars and the Embassy of Sweden in Washington DC, Håkan Samuelsson, president and chief executive of Volvo Cars, will urge the US to adopt a national framework for regulation and testing of autonomous driving (AD).

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Volvo Car Corp. demonstrates autonomous driving in traffic jams; traffic jam assistance system ready for production in 2014

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Separately, Volvo Car Corporation and the Embassy of Sweden hosted a seminar—“Policy Implications of Autonomous Vehicles”— in Washington DC at which Mertens called for a seamless, federal framework for regulating autonomous vehicles. But the legal situation for this technology still remains unclear.

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Six automated truck platoons to compete in European Truck Platooning Challenge

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If possible, in the interests of fuel efficiency, the distance is adjusted to the legally prescribed distance without interventions in the brake system. A similar seminar will be arranged by Volvo Trucks in Brussels.

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China bets on open-source chips as US export controls mount – ET Auto

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In 2019, researchers at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China organised a seminar on how RISC-V could help China achieve tech self-sufficiency.

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