United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Yes.

Uh, you, you mentioned, uh, I, I've been for, for ten years the chair of, um, the Economic Commission for Europe, United Na- uh, of the United Nation, and, uh, in this, uh, UNEC, uh, convention, there is, um, uh, there is c- convention dedicated to long-range transboundary air pollution.

And I've been the chair of the scientific body or one of the scientific bodies of this convention, and, uh, we've been looking f- for such a solution, international intergovernmental action to find the first to exchange good practice, but also to find solution altogether that f- especially for, for those pollutants that travel across so long distances when we know that the impact could be, uh, uh, could be felt thousand kilometers away from, uh, from the sources.

So there are those kinds of, uh, of areas.

Because back then, we don't have this homologation I mentioned before.

Like Malaysia, we use UNECE regulation.

So cars must surpass the standard of quality and safety before they make it to the market.

So now everybody, all the cars, you can actually live with all these cars.

Um, I think this will initially pave the way for mass-produced vehicles with AVP.

Even more significant, um, will be the implementation of the UNECE regulation on autonomous driving, which was adopted in June.

And this UNECE regulation will also be incorporated into the framework of Regulation twenty eighteen eight five eight and will then apply to mass production as well.

And even within EU type approval, the operating rules stay national.

So a vehicle approved EU-wide still cannot simply drive in Vienna or Munich under one permission.

However, I can imagine that the member states might, so to speak, volun- voluntarily agree on a certain standard and procedure allowing them to mutually recognize permits or to conduct technical oversight across national borders, f- for example.

So how does that UN instrument get into German law, and what is the realistic timeline? Does it eventually replace parts of the AFGBV or sit alongside it?

UNECE regulations are published for six months, give member states the opportunity to raise objections.

Alex Epstein here at the house

about to say my old job at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

And this work also predates my role here when I was at the U.S.

DOT Volpe Center in Cambridge at XMIT.

So the phrase careful and competent captures those two aspects.

And the kind of origin in law, it's used in UK driving law and has now become part of the AV law in the UK and into the UNECE regulations.

Its use in UK driving law is around driving.

instances of careless driving and dangerous driving and in careless driving it's when your standard has fallen below that expected the minimum standard expected of a careful and competent driver and for dangerous driving it's where it's fallen far below that of a careful and competent human driver and where there was danger associated with that action and so that's the origin it's kind of got a negative definition it's When has driving fallen below that standard? There isn't a clear positive definition of what it means to be careful and competent.