Self-Driving Cars Have New Rules in the U.S. Here's Why That Matters

> The order describes its next change as protecting “confidential business information.” This change allows manufacturers to request the shielding of three data points about a crash that were previously disclosed: the answer to the question of whether the car had been driven in conditions in which it was designed to operate; a plain-language description of the circumstances of the crash; and the version of automated self-driving software that was in use.

Oh yes, let's protect privacy by not disclosing whether the crash happened where it shouldn't and version of the AI system that was in charge. I always worried about disclosing the version publicly, huge privacy concern!

What a joke

We need accurate reporting to learn and fix problems. Any good engineer knows that. We saw how the public quickly started to trust Waymo because it is safer than human drivers by orders of magnitude. This totalitarian regime is going to undermine progress and get people killed by allowing unsafe robotaxis on the streets.