State regulation of self-driving cars:
The reason for the ASTM F24 versus ASCE are:
- Safety record:
- F24 has an injury rate of ~0.9 per million
- ASCE/DOTs have an injury rate of 11,200 per million on roads. Granted railroads and people movers have lower injury rates but I am unsure of their data. Do you have such data?
- Active Component focus:
- F24 meets civil requirements from a mechanical engineering perspective.
- ASCE perspective is civil engineering with a secondary view to mechanics.
- Commercial versus government users.
- F24 is used by theme parks, sky lifts, etc...
- Existing commercial insurance
- Existing commercial enforcement
- Existing US manufacturers
- Existing common law
- Disney, Six Flags
- ASCE installations are generally government owned with sovereign immunity
- Dominated for train thinking
- Mostly foreign manufacturers are certified to build.
- Cost plus mentality
- High costs with no incentives to think lean
- Innovation:
- F24 created extraordinary innovations. See the wide variety of grade-separated thrill rides.
- ASCE is stagnant and has not successfully supported commercial deployment of PRT.
- Future regulation and regulation by states versus the Federal government:
- F24:
- Used by many existing businesses so governments will have a more complex time overmilking the cow.
- State regulation of the industry instead of Federal
- ASCE and Federal regulations:
- Since 1916 actions resulted in 46% of 470 ton-mpg railroads being replaced by roads with the 25 mpg efficiency of the Model-T.
- Sustainability:
- F24 integrates easily with solar collection and other aspects of sustainability.
- ASCE is responsible for creating the infrastructure that is the Root Cause of Climate Change, oil war, traffic, and traffic deaths by not thinking beyond their current paychecks.