http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/technology/daily-report-regulators-catching-up-with-driverless-cars.html 2016-09-20 18:09:44 Daily Report: Regulators Catching Up With Driverless Cars The Transportation Department issued detailed guidelines for safety expectations and the role of state regulations for driverless and semiautonomous cars. === Technology is changing so quickly that it is regularly outstripping regulations, often forcing federal regulators to play catch-up. Consider drones, the flying machines that companies including Amazon want to use to make deliveries. As consumer drones increasingly became available, many municipal and state lawmakers passed rules about the machines at a rapid pace, concerned about the privacy and safety risks of the gadgets. Yet it was not until last year that the On Monday, federal regulators again played catch-up with another fast-evolving technology: driverless and semiautonomous cars, The guidelines are influential, but many of these driverless and semiautonomous cars have already reached the mainstream. Tens of thousands of people already own