Abstract
Subject US 'soft law' regulation. Significance The Department of Transportation (DOT) announced in September its intent to issue new non-binding guidelines for the development of self-driving automobiles. Although they do not carry the full weight of law, the guidelines are a significant step toward establishing new laws and regulations, as well as signalling intent by some agencies to pursue more 'soft law' approaches to regulating technologies that evolve faster than traditional laws can be enacted. Impacts Congress will come under pressure to legislate better regulatory evolution with respect to technological innovation. However, partisan suspicion of the government's regulatory role is likely to hold back innovation-friendly shifts in US legislation. State and municipal regulation will shape the rollout of self-driving vehicles in the United States.
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