Driving the Future: Autonomous Vehicles Strategic Framework Vision and Guiding Principles
Government document
The State of California formed an interagency workgroup to develop a strategic vision for the deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs), which released the following guiding principles:
- Environment: Deploy zero-emission AVs in a manner that minimizes emissions and vehicle miles traveled, promotes smart growth, and maintains natural and working lands.
- Equity: Improve affordable and convenient access to destinations, goods, and services through AV deployment, particularly to reduce or eliminate systemic inequities for all communities throughout California.
- High Quality Jobs: Require jobs created in the transition to AVs be high-quality jobs that support California workers with good wages and benefits and improve the competitiveness of California’s employers.
- Inclusivity and Equitable Access: Increase AVs’ benefits for all road users in California through universal design and routes.
- Partnerships: Integrate AVs into California’s economy through active collaboration, joint investment, and shared responsibility among all stakeholders in the public and private sectors.
- Public Health and Livability: Ensure AVs operate as an integrated part of a multimodal system that prioritizes people and their health over vehicles to improve public health.
- Safety: Increase the safety of all road users and the underlying transportation system through AV operation, design, and infrastructure investments.
- Shared Economic Benefit: Create an inclusive economic future that maximizes opportunities and benefits and limits negative impacts for both California’s workers and the state economy due to the transition and growth of the AV industry.