This report examines existing regulatory approaches and then explores how performance standards might be used to improve regulatory outcomes. Under a performance-based approach to regulation, standards would specify the performance required from vehicle operations rather than mandating how this...

Every day, thousands are injured and almost 350 people are killed on the roads of OECD countries. Although new technologies - including intelligent speed adaptation and collision avoidance systems - are being developed and could significantly reduce this toll by perhaps as much as 40%,...