North American Highway Safety Administration
The North American Highway Safety Administration (NAHSA) is an agency of the United North American States government within the Department of Transportation responsible for the construction and maintenance of interstate roads and highways within the UNAS. The NAHSA also establishes safety and control measures for these highways such as automated vehicle speed and pathfinding protocols, ensuring national highways are as efficient as possible. In the event of a highway emergency the NAHSA has protocols in place to take over control over vehicles on the highway, either by dictating commands to the vehicles' AI or by taking control directly. The NAHSA maintains teams of emergency drivers to remotely access vehicles for this purpose.
The NAHSA also maintains the infrastructure for manual driving, setting aside lanes where humans are allowed to drive their own vehicles. The NAHSA must ensure that these lanes do not impede with the flow of regular, automated traffic. Visual signage is required to convey regulations to human drivers, unlike automated vehicles which can download the latest protocols directly from the road network.
The NAHSA partnered with the Bureau of Contaminated Land Management and Reclamation to establish safe driving corridors through Exclusion Zones, known as Exclusion Zone Bypass Tunnels.
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