Groups for Those With Hearing Disabilities Back GM Seeking to Pull RTT Waiver Bid

About a dozen groups formally backed General Motors' ask that the FCC pull the company's waiver bid to not provide some real-time texting functions in Cruise shared autonomous vehicles (see 1904260002). The RTT mandates that the automaker sought to escape "appear, at least at this preliminary stage of development of GM service, to be inapplicable to the service," said the American Association of People with Disabilities, National Association of the Deaf, Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and others. The filing posted Wednesday in docket 15-178.