US regulators are proposing to remove the mandatory manual brake pedal requirement for self-driving cars, aiming to accelerate their deployment on American roads. This move, while maintaining strict braking performance standards, is part of broader efforts to streamline the rollout of autonomous technology. The agency also withdrew a previous voluntary framework for evaluating self-driving vehicles due to industry concerns about stringency.

The move is part of the Trump administration's effort to modernise standards for driverless cars and could ease the way for purpose-built autonomous vehicles | World News

The US Department of Transportation is updating federal safety standards to remove brake pedal and steering wheel requirements for fully driverless