There is no rational basis for vehicle safety standards and the outcomes (deaths per passenger mile) show that we are doing a horrible job at it.
Regulating the addition of LIDAR based object detection to all vehicles will have no basis in safety until domestic manufacturers can't compete with imports and they need another expensive component to tack on to every car to narrow the price gap in their incompetence to compete globally. Then there will be a PR campaign, funded by Detroit, about how necessary it is for "safety" to add LIDAR or whatever to every car.
Does this mean current systems require this or that? Nope, but making the claim that all systems must be equipped with a certain technology seems short sighted, particularly when the proven counter example is putting a few million miles on the road every day.
