Self-driving cars will have to clear a new federal safety checklist | Recode Daily: September 20, 2016

The first federal guidelines for autonomous vehicles, due out today, will include a 15-point safety assessment that manufacturers will have to address, covering such factors as software performance and testing, data collection and sharing, and the programming for dealing with ethical and conflict situations on the road. States will retain their authority to license human drivers and register cars; set and enforce traffic laws; and regulate vehicle insurance and liability.
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Facebook has acquired Nascent Objects, a startup that makes a "modular electronics platform" enabling developers to produce prototypes of new hardware more quickly. Nascent Objects will join Facebook’s Building 8, the company’s new top-secret hardware lab.
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On the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Margrethe Vestager, the EU's competition commissioner, talks about her efforts to enforce fairness in the marketplace — efforts that have recently pitted her against companies like Google and Apple over antitrust and tax issues.
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