At first glance, it seems like an easy call for a regulator: Adopt technology that allows cars to “talk” to each other, avert more than 500,000 crashes and save 1,000 lives each year. But a host of difficult legal issues threaten to stall a tentative proposal by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that would require new cars and trucks to come equipped with such vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems by 2019. Among them, concerns about liability, privacy, cybersecurity and government overreach.
“We’re talking about a titanic shift in the fight for auto safety … but it’s complicated,” says Venable partner David Strickland, who led the NHTSA from 2010 until he joined the firm last year.
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