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Entertainment September 14, 2017

Today in Movie Culture: Dave Bautista Gets a 'Blade Runner 2049' Prequel Short, Harry Potter Gets Another Fan Theory and More

Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

Prequel Short of the Day:

Denis Villeneuve introduces another short prequel to Blade Runner 2049, this one introducing Dave Bautista’s replicant character:

#BladeRunner2049‘s @DaveBautista is a replicant on the run in this never-before-seen in-world prequel. Watch it now. pic.twitter.com/xGn3WfjATF

— iTunes Trailers (@iTunesTrailers) September 14, 2017

Fan Theory of the Day:

Cracked explores the theory that Harry Potter’s curse magically caused his nice adoptive family into a bunch of jerks:

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Poster Homage of the Day:

This week’s new Stranger Things throwback poster pays homage to Jaws or maybe Tremors or both:

You’ll never go in the Upside Down again. #StrangerThursdays begins now. pic.twitter.com/5Q6JmasZQL

— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) September 14, 2017

Movie Comparison of the Day:

If The Fate of the Furious seemed familiar, maybe it’s because, as shown by Couch Tomato, it’s basically a redo of Misson: Impossible – Ghost Protocol:

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Remixed Movie of the Day:

Eclectic Method turns the sounds and dialogue of Bong Joon-ho’s Okja into an approriately industrial-sounding dance mix:

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Vintage Image of the Day:

Sam Neill, who turns 70 today, with co-star Laura Dern and director Steven Spielberg during the making of Jurassic Park in 1992:

Steven Spielberg with Sam Neill and Laura Dern on the set of “Jurassic Park” pic.twitter.com/2hC7AQbjpK

— Movies in the Making (@moviesinmaking) July 12, 2017

Actor in the Spotlight:

The latest edition of No Small Parts for IMDb tracks the career of Elisabeth Moss through this year’s The Handmaid’s Tale:

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Filmmaker in Focus:

In his new video essay, Mr. Nerdista shows how Alfred Hitchcock, with his movie Rope, changed the editing forever:

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Cosplay of the Day:

Thor: Ragnarok isn’t even out yet, but Cate Blanchett’s Hela is already inspiring some great cosplay:

Asgard, you will fall.
Photo by Nels._#hela#cosplay#helacosplay#ThorRagnarok#asgard#thor#cosplayerpic.twitter.com/2veTbd70oX

— Sylvia Slays @LBCC (@SylviaSlays) August 31, 2017

Classic Trailer of the Day:

Today is the 10th anniversary of the release of Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe. Watch the original trailer for the Beatles musical below.

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Sports September 14, 2017

Close Call, But Indians Pass Cubs, Set Sights On Longest MLB Winning Streak

Jay Bruce of the Cleveland Indians celebrates with teammates after hitting a game-winning double off Brandon Maurer of the Kansas City Royals during the 10th inning Thursday at Progressive Field in Cleveland.

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After three weeks of domination, the Cleveland Indians had begun to seem almost invulnerable. The Kansas City Royals exposed some weakness Thursday night but couldn’t finish the job, as the Indians got consecutive win No. 22 with runs in the ninth and 10th innings.

A double by Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer got outfielder Melky Cabrera across home plate for a 2-1 lead in the sixth, but Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor’s two-out double in the ninth scored pinch runner Erik Gonzalez.

Outfielder Jay Bruce, whose midseason acquisition from the New York Mets has powered much of the streak, hit a double in the 10th inning to drive in second baseman Jose Ramirez for the winning run for Cleveland.

The win gave Cleveland sole possession of the second-longest winning streak in Major League Baseball history, passing the Chicago Cubs. The record is held by the 1916 New York Giants with 26; if the Indians manage three more wins against the Royals, they could tie the record at 10 p.m. ET on Tuesday against the Los Angeles Angels.

The streak, which began with a win Aug. 24 against the Boston Red Sox and includes series sweeps of the Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers (twice!) and these same Royals, has rocketed the Indians to the top of the American League and leave them three wins shy of clinching a playoff spot.

Thursday night’s game was the first time during the streak that the Indians trailed entering the ninth inning and the first game that went to extra innings, and was only the fourth one-run win of the stretch.

The loss for Kansas City was at least an improvement over the three-game sweep in August, in which the Indians outscored them 20-0. But moral victories don’t count for much with a team barely hanging onto hopes of a wild card berth.

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Health September 14, 2017

Get Ready! Medicare Will Mail New Cards to 60 Million People

The new Medicare cards (right) will not use Social Security numbers for identification. Instead, they will have random sequences of letters and numbers.

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It’s an administrative task for the ages.

Medicare is getting ready to issue all 60 million of its beneficiaries new cards with new ID numbers as way to combat identity theft and fraud.

The rollout begins next April, but the agency is already beginning its outreach campaign.

“We want to make this process as easy as possible for everybody involved,” said Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, on a conference call Thursday.

The agency has set up a website, is sending out handbooks to all enrollees, and has call centers ready to answer questions from beneficiaries and doctors.

Until now, Medicare used people’s Social Security numbers. But Congress in 2015 passed a law requiring the agency to change that as a way to protect seniors from identity theft. The new identifiers will be a randomly generated sequence of 11 numbers and letters.

“Changing numbers for nearly 60 million people on Medicare may be a hassle, but it’s a good idea given the bigger hassles that come with identity theft,” says Tricia Neumann, director of the Program on Medicare Policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

AARP has long advocated for the change because of concerns that seniors’ identities would be stolen. The group actually advises seniors not to carry their original Medicare card but only a copy with the last four digits of their Social Security number blotted out.

Congress allocated $242 million for the switchover, spread across four fiscal years.

During the transition to the new cards, “Medicare beneficiaries don’t need to do anything, other than look out for scams,” said Andrew Skolnick of AARP’s Federal Health and Family Team.

Verma says the new cards will begin to be mailed next April, and the transition will continue into 2019.

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Business September 14, 2017

Chinese Construction Company Inks Deal To Build Trump Golf Course In Dubai

A Chinese state-owned construction company has been awarded a contract to work on the Trump golf course in Dubai. The contract was confirmed despite assurances from President Trump that he would not engage in foreign deals while he is in the White House.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

President Trump has said that he would not engage in foreign business deals while he’s in the White House. Well, a Chinese state-owned construction company has been awarded a $32 million contract to work on a Trump golf course development in Dubai. NPR’s Jackie Northam reports.

JACKIE NORTHAM, BYLINE: President Trump has two golf courses in Dubai bearing his name. The first, an 18-hole course, was opened in February by his sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr. The second, designed by golfing great Tiger Woods, is due to open in late 2018. Both are set inside massive luxury housing developments.

ALAN SHIPNUCK: The scale of these developments is incredible.

NORTHAM: Alan Shipnuck is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated.

SHIPNUCK: I mean, you’re talking about a whole city built around this golf course, you know, 10,000 homes at each one.

NORTHAM: A construction company owned by the Chinese government will build the roads in the residential area. Critics are crying foul, saying Trump is reneging on his pledge not to do any foreign deals while he’s president. But the thing is Trump doesn’t own the development. Shipnuck says like most of his other 18 golf courses around the world, Trump only licenses out his name, his brand, for a fee to a developer. And that’s who awarded the contract to the Chinese construction company.

SHIPNUCK: The developer is handling all the infrastructure and all the homes. Trump puts his name on the golf course and then his people manage it going forward.

NORTHAM: Trump’s partner in the Dubai golf course development is Damac Properties. Its owner is Hussain Sajwani, a billionaire from the United Arab Emirates. His nickname is the Donald of Dubai. Besides the Chinese deal, Damac is also awarding contracts to companies from several Gulf and European countries.

LARRY NOBLE: President Trump’s name is on this golf course in a development where there is a lot of foreign involvement.

NORTHAM: Larry Noble is general counsel with the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. He says there are concerns Trump’s deals could impact decisions over foreign policy, security and trade.

NOBLE: So it’s an inherent conflict of interest. It’s an inherent problem for the president to have that much of a financial stake in what foreign-owned companies are doing, companies that are owned by foreign governments are doing regardless of the fine details of it. You know, the bottom line here is if that development does well, he does well.

NORTHAM: Noble says the only way for Trump to prevent this conflict of interest is to fully divest from his business interests. So far the president has shown no signs of doing that. A request for comment from The Trump Organization was not returned. Jackie Northam, NPR News, Washington.

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Entertainment September 13, 2017

Today in Movie Culture: 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle' in Lego, Don Bluth's American Classic and More

Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

Trailer Remake of the Day:

Ahead of this month’s release of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, here’s the obligatory Lego redo of the trailer from Huxley Berg Studios:

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Film Studies Lesson of the Day:

What is “result direction”? This video essay on the collaboration of directors and actors by Travis Lee Ratcliff explains:

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New Perspective of the Day:

Learn the supposed “hidden meaning” of Django Unchained from an alien in the future in the latest Earthling Cinema video:

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Mashup of the Day:

Antonio Maria Da Silva edited together homages to the stairs sequence from Battleship Potemkin, including the Untouchables version and the Naked Gun parody, with the original:

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Vintage Image of the Day:

Don Bluth, who turns 80 today, working on his 1982 feature directorial debut, The Secret of NIMH:

Video Essay of the Day:

Speaking of Bluth, here’s Bridgett Greenberg at Cracked with why An American Tail is an American classic:

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Cosplay of the Day:

Speaking of cartoon animals, don’t dare call this Judy Hopps from Zootopia cosplayer “cute”:

Judy Hopps from Zootopia #cosplay done by https://t.co/MOe193xtKcpic.twitter.com/s4aLjvYVn8

— Cosplay Girls (@CosplayGirIs) September 13, 2017

Supercut of the Day:

We can never have too many dancing supercuts, so here’s another one just from ’80s movies:

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Actor in the Spotlight:

For IMDb, the latest installment of No Small Parts showcases the work of Michael K. Williams:

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Classic Trailer of the Day:

Today is the 15th anniversary of the release of Barbershop. Watch the original trailer for the classic comedy below.

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Business September 13, 2017

Episode 647: Hard Work Is Irrelevant

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Note: This episode originally ran in 2015.

Most companies reward hard work. This is why people get paid overtime, and why full-time workers make more than part-time ones.

But, if you think about it, hard work alone says nothing about how much value you create. You could be toiling day and night, and be mostly useless to your employer. To your employer’s bottom line, what really matters isn’t how much you put in, but what you deliver.

There’s one company that takes this idea to its logical conclusion: Netflix. It’s run like a sports team. Whether you’re yesterday’s hire or one of the first employees, you’re out the minute you stop justifying your presence.

It wasn’t always like this. Right after the dot-com bubble burst, Netflix was like any other company. But, to survive, it had to cut non-essential staff. Patty McCord, who was in charge of hiring and firing, had to seriously reevaluate what each person was contributing. She laid off a third of the company, and what she found was that the company didn’t just do fine, but was performing better than before. That experience gave rise to a philosophy that became an influential PowerPoint presentation that over 16 million people have viewed.

Today on the show, hear how Patty McCord turned Netflix into a sports team, and just how far the company took that principle.

We’ve also got an update on a brand new business that was sparked by this episode and has adapted some of the Netflix principles.

Music: “Feels So Good” “We are Better Together” and “Midnight.” Find us: Twitter/ Facebook. Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts or PocketCast.

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Sports September 13, 2017

Dual Olympic Bids Approved For Paris And Los Angeles

Paris and Los Angeles have been awarded the honor of hosting the 2024 and 2028 Olympic games, respectively. Pictured above: IOC President Thomas Bach (center), Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo (left), and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garrett.

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It’s official, the 2024 Olympics are coming to Paris – and four years later they’ll be in Los Angeles in the first “double allocation” of the Olympic contests in modern history.

The International Olympic Committee announced it had approved the allocations — the result of a three-way deal — by vote Wednesday.

“This historic double allocation is a’win-win-win’ situation for the city of Paris, the city of Los Angeles and the IOC,” said IOC President Thomas Bach following the vote to approve the decision.

IOC makes historic decision by simultaneously awarding Olympic Games 2024 to Paris and 2028 to Los Angeles https://t.co/NSXWbFCo6Upic.twitter.com/vuEMesyclD

— IOC MEDIA (@iocmedia) September 13, 2017

The Associated Press reports that Bach declared the vote unanimous after a “show of hands” count raised no objections.

The vote, in addition to setting the Olympic schedule for 11 years, breaks the IOC’s tradition of selecting host cities one at a time. Initially agreed to over the summer, the three-way deal followed an exodus of other bidders for the 2024 games, reported Ben Bergen, of member station KPCC, in June.

“Few governments want to risk the billions in cost overruns that have become synonymous with recent Olympics. That’s why the IOC is considering awarding dual bids,” said Bergen at time.

And once the IOC was looking at just two bidders, as NPR’s Tom Goldman reported, it was down to a matter “of who’d get what.”

“Paris said it didn’t want to host in 2028. 2024 will be the 100th anniversary of the 1924 Paris summer games. … LA sent signals that it was open to going second, ” Tom told Morning Edition last month.

Los Angeles, host city to the 1932 and 1984 summer games, conceded the 2024 Olympics to Paris, Tom goes on, and has been promised $180 million by the IOC for doing that.

The AP adds this will be the third Olympics for both cities, and the Los Angeles games will be the first Summer Olympiad in the U.S. since 1996.

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Health September 13, 2017

Bernie Sanders Introduces 'Medicare-For-All' Health Bill

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced a bill Wednesday that would create a Medicare-for-all public health system. A number of Democrats signed on to co-sponsor the bill, showing that the party may be embracing that position more firmly.

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST:

Senator Bernie Sanders was joined by several prominent Democratic senators today announcing a plan he calls Medicare-for-All.

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BERNIE SANDERS: All of us stand before you and proudly proclaim our belief that health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

MCEVERS: It would expand the government-run health care system for the elderly to all Americans, eventually eliminating private insurance. NPR’s Scott Detrow was at the unveiling, and he is with us now from the Capitol. Hey there, Scott.

SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE: Hey, Kelly.

MCEVERS: So tell us more about what Senator Sanders is proposing.

DETROW: So yeah, he wants to gradually get rid of private insurance companies and expand Medicare so that it covers all Americans. Right now of course it’s for age 65 and over. This plan would lower that age over the course of four years. Not only that – Sanders wants to get rid of all out-of-pocket costs – no copays, no bills – sounds very ambitious, also sounds very expensive. And you would need to raise taxes by a lot to pay for this.

MCEVERS: And Sanders himself has said before that this kind of thing can’t pass, right? And in the past, it has been the kind of thing that Democrats have even kept their distance from. So who was with him in this today?

DETROW: Right. That’s the most interesting aspect of all of this. Sanders introduced a very similar bill in 2013 – grand total of zero co-sponsors – this time around, 16. Not only that – it included just about every Senate Democrat who’s been talked about as a possible presidential candidate. You had Kamala Harris from California, Cory Booker from New Jersey. Here’s what Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said.

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ELIZABETH WARREN: We will not back down in our protection of the Affordable Care Act. We will defend it at every turn. But we will go further. We will go further, and we will say that in this country, everyone, everyone gets a right to basic health care.

DETROW: So it’s really looking increasingly likely that the party’s next presidential nominee would endorse a plan that looks something like this.

MCEVERS: Is it just a political statement, or is single-payer health care now a serious goal for Democrats?

DETROW: So the bill itself is probably a political statement. This is clearly not something that Mitch McConnell is going to call up for a vote in the Republican-controlled Senate. But it is part of a real trend. For decades, Republicans have been painting Democrats as the party that wants government-run health insurance. They demonize it as socialized medicine, and Democrats have tried to keep that idea at arm’s length.

But you see more and more Democrats backing either this bill or something similar, some sort of way to get what they call true universal coverage. So you’ve seen other plans to put a public option on the Affordable Care Act markets or to lower Medicare. A lot of bills like this are being introduced right now.

MCEVERS: So what do the party leaders – I mean we’ve talked about some Democrats here, but what do the party leaders who have control over the Democrats’ agenda say about this?

DETROW: It’s important to point out that not everybody is onboard. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has dismissed this, saying it’s just not politically practical. And remember; she spent years wrangling votes, trying to pass Obamacare. She says it’s great as a long-term goal, but she thinks states should do it first. And that’s interesting because Democrats have a near lock on control in her home state of California. They could not pass single-payer this year. And in Sanders’ home state of Vermont, Democrats tried to do it and couldn’t.

So Pelosi and other Democrats say the focus right now should be on protecting the Affordable Care Act. Republicans are still trying to repeal it. President Trump today encouraged a new effort from a couple of Republican senators to do just that.

MCEVERS: NPR’s Scott Detrow on Capitol Hill, thank you.

DETROW: Thank you.

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Entertainment September 12, 2017

Today in Movie Culture: How 'Wonder Woman' Should Have Ended, Jason vs. Michael Myers and More

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Alternate Endings of the Day:

Wonder Woman gets some alternate scenes, including a Moana mashup, and ending in this animated parody:

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Mashup of the Day:

We’ve seen Jason battle Freddy, so now it’s time for the Friday the 13th icon to fight Halloween‘s Michael Myers in this fan-made trailer:

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Alternate Poster of the Day:

Thor: Ragnarok, director Taika Waititi shared some mashup fan art, jokingly claiming it an unused poster design:

My rejected poster design. pic.twitter.com/GL4t1ONSrr

— Taika Waititi (@TaikaWaititi) September 9, 2017

Fan Theory of the Day:

Disney animated features are all part of a cinematic universe, starting with Hercules and Ariel from The Little Mermaid being cousins according to this theory, er, mythologial fact:

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Vintage Image of the Day:

Louis C.K., who turns 50 today, handles his own camera on the set of his first feature,Tomorrow Night, in 1997:

Get it now before he changes his mind! @louisck unseen feature, ‘Tomorrow Night’ for $5 via https://t.co/j8GNm7gl1Ipic.twitter.com/BL7O1IM5nS

— Brand Invasion (@BrandInvasion) January 29, 2014

Film History Lesson of the Day:

Celebrate sci-fi movies with Moon Film’s chronological supercut of 115 years of the genre:

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Movie Takedown of the Day:

Just when you thought the negative takes on The Mummy were gone, Honest Trailers resurrects the pain:

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Behind the Scenes Video of the Day:

Amazon shared a video of Jon Hamm and Ansel Elgort practicing some stunt driving for Baby Driver:

#JonHamm and @AnselElgort learn how to drive for Baby Driver now available on Amazon Video: https://t.co/FN15i0mphSpic.twitter.com/NmjqV1fz4p

— Amazon Video (@AmazonVideo) September 12, 2017

Cosplay of the Day:

Beat Down Boogie’s video of the best cosplay of Dragon Con 2017 has arrived with fans representing Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galaxy, Gremlins, The Fifth Element and more:

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Classic Trailer of the Day:

Today is the 20th anniversary of the release of David Fincher’s The Game. Watch the original teaser for the classic thriller below.

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Business September 12, 2017

Department Of Transportation Rolls Out New Guidelines For Self-Driving Cars

A Ford Fusion development vehicle equipped with autonomous controls, seen at a test facility Tuesday in Ann Arbor, Mich.

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The Department of Transportation released its revised guidelines on automated driving systems Tuesday, outlining its recommended — but not mandatory — best practices for companies developing self-driving cars. The first such guidelines released under the Trump administration, the Vision for Safety 2.0 scales back some of the recommendations outlined last year under President Obama.

In a statement released Tuesday, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao lauded the possibilities of automated driving systems, saying “we can look forward to a future with fewer traffic fatalities and increased mobility for all Americans.”

“In addition to safety,” Chao said, “ADS technology offers important social benefits by improving access to transportation, independence and quality of life for those who cannot drive because of illness, advanced age or disability.”

As Forbes reports, the prevailing difference between last year’s version and the one released Tuesday is one of slimmed scale and extent. For instance, the new guidelines trim a 15-point safety assessment proposed last year, which would be conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration if manufacturers submit to one. The proposed evaluation is down to 12 points.

Though, as a voluntary exercise, the number of points on the assessment is likely less important than whether manufacturers submit to one at all — and Deborah A.P. Hersman, president and CEO of National Safety Council, points out that “DOT has yet to receive any Safety Assessments, even though vehicles are being tested in many states.”

The new guidelines make clear again that manufacturers are not required to submit to voluntary assessments — though they are “encouraged” — and that those assessments are “not subject to Federal approval.”

“Voluntary guidelines will serve the developers of new technologies to ensure they can move quickly, but they serve public safety best if all the players agree to comply with them,” Hersman said in a statement Tuesday.

“Mandating additional safety measures such as a clear disclosure, robust validation processes prior to deployment and data sharing requirements will now fall to the Congress as both the House and Senate move their bills,” she said.

The new guidelines also no longer apply to Level 2 vehicles — or vehicles with partial automation, in facets such as acceleration and steering, that still require drivers to “remain engaged with the driving task.”

David Friedman, former interim head of NHTSA, says the timing of Chao’s announcement should raise some eyebrows. On the same day the new plan relaxed guidance on Level 2 vehicles, the National Transportation Safety Board faulted a Tesla automated driving system for playing a “major role” in a collision that killed its test driver last year.

According to the NTSB assessment, the cause of the crash was a combination of the “driver’s inattention” and the Tesla automation system that “permitted the car driver’s overreliance on the automation.”

“System safeguards, that should have prevented the Tesla’s driver from using the car’s automation system on certain roadways, were lacking and the combined effects of human error and the lack of sufficient system safeguards resulted in a fatal collision that should not have happened,” NTSB Chairman Robert L. Sumwalt III said in a statement.

Friedman says the new guidelines will do little to rectify the kinds of problems that led to the crash — in fact, he says, just the opposite: “Now it’s back to the wild, wild west for those systems.”

“Just as the NTSB says the government and industry should be stepping up its efforts to ensure the safety of Level 2 automated vehicles,” he added, “the Department of Transportation and Secretary Chao are rolling back their responsibility in that space.”

Nevertheless, the Department of Transportation says the development of this technology will do much to reduce the number of serious automobile crashes, 94 percent of which it says are due to human error.

And the agency says these new guidelines are just part of an evolving approach to automated driving systems. “In fact,” it says, “DOT and NHTSA are already planning for 3.0.”

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