Abstract:

The industry’s rapid development has encouraged regulators around the world to introduce AV policy frameworks to enable the safe experimentation and development of the technology. Approaches to AV policy vary greatly between nations and other jurisdictions, and all are relatively nascent. The purpose of this report is to assist Israeli policymakers in shaping the regulatory framework for the deployment of AV technologies in Israel. The report evaluates policy approaches in three countries, Singapore, the United Kingdom (UK), and Australia, and in two US states, California and Arizona, and includes contributions from the authors of those policies. The national and US state contexts reviewed demonstrate that an ideal AV regulatory environment is one that successfully advances technological improvements as well as market readiness while ensuring that AVs contribute to national and local mobility goals: safety, decongestion, equity in mobility, employment, economic growth and sustainable mobility development. They further show that the first step to enabling the technological maturity of AVs is to ensure the safe piloting and testing of the technology.