I think the insurance companies will have a different and much more financially based standard. More importantly, I doubt NIH will trump that conglomerate and

I think the insurance companies will have a different and much more financially based standard. More importantly, I doubt NIH will trump that conglomerate and its influence on NHTSA Also, you could argue that restricting a technology that will result in 20% less deaths on the road is the opposite of the public health. To underline that, that is potentially 10,000 people in terms of death or major disfigurement. PER YEAR. And self-driving could be, in a targeted/situational manner FAR safer if it took drunk/drugged/tired drivers out of the equation, which are responsible for around 33% of deaths. If someone is drunk, a technology 2x an alert driver will be 10x a drunk driver.