The short story:

Goverment on self driving cars: Save time, money & lives.

In an effort to exhilarate the introduction of self driving vehicles the federal government has (surprisingly) released a comprehensive set of guidelines governing many different aspects autonomous vehicles.

Considering the estimate for ready access to fully self driving cars to be 2020 the new standards should help line details like liability and failure handeling.

Read details of the guidelines on Recode.