Add Germany to the list of places where businesses can test their self-driving cars on the open road — as long as they have a driver sitting at the wheel ready to take control at any time.
That’s one of the restrictions imposed by a new law voted by the German Federal Council (Bundesrat) on Friday.
The move will be a welcome one for Germany’s automotive industry, allowing manufacturers such as Audi to test self-driving vehicles in their home country, rather than taking them all the way to California.
Other requirements of the new law for anyone wanting to put a self-driving car on the German roads include the fitting of a “black box” recorder like those in planes — with the same goal of helping investigators reconstruct what happened in the event of an accident.
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