China Bans Self Driving Cars From Highways Until Further Notice

China’s auto industry regulator said it’s working with police to formulate rules governing the testing of autonomous cars, warning automakers that they shouldn’t test their self-driving vehicles on highways before the regulations are released.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and police have a preliminary draft of the rules, She Weizhen, head of the ministry’s autos department, said in a forum in Beijing. She didn’t give a detailed time frame on when the regulations will be finalized.

mre30 - 7/20/2016 4:01:16 PM

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When is Tesla CEO Elon Musk testifying before Senate/Congress? They were required to do so before July 29th but no news on this.

When is NHTSA "stop sale" order coming in the US?

MDarringer - 7/20/2016 4:50:34 PM

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China got it right.

cidflekken - 7/20/2016 6:07:57 PM

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China bans sales until they can clone the technology and sell them under their own brands.....

TheSteve - 7/20/2016 6:49:22 PM

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If America banned self-driving cars from highways today, do you know what would change? Nothing!

Google and others who are researching autonomous cars are not driving on highways. And those pesky Teslas with "AutoPilot" crashing on highways are NOT autonomous cars. Tesla's AutoPilot is a driver-assist system only. It is not autonomous.

As they say, much ado about nothing.