Autonomous driving takes back seat as connected car rules prepared

European Commission and Parliament officials said on Thursday (3 September) that they were moving towards regulating connected cars, but are still a long way off from sealing new legislation on autonomous vehicles.

Major car companies have been running tests on autonomous or driverless cars over the last couple of years—and some have had hiccups along the way. Google reported several crashes involving its autonomous cars in the US in this year alone.