rule of the road
noun phrase
: a customary practice (such as driving always on a particular side of the road or yielding the right of way) developed in the interest of safety and often subsequently reinforced by law
especially
: any of the rules making up a code governing ships in matters relating to mutual safety
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And then three, is there any regulatory framework, the, the sort of rules of the road that companies use to measure and report emissions, does banking and investing fit underneath those?
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Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2024
The big picture: In the absence of federal guardrails on artificial intelligence in health care, state governments are figuring out their own rules of the road.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024
If these were the rules of the road across the economy, there’d be no cellular plans, newspaper subscriptions or video streaming services.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2024
That will also mean setting out rules of the road for what sorts of chips, AI training data and other code ... can be housed in the data centers that countries around the world are racing to build to localize AI information.
—Mike Allen, Axios, 25 July 2024
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Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2024
The big picture: In the absence of federal guardrails on artificial intelligence in health care, state governments are figuring out their own rules of the road.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024
If these were the rules of the road across the economy, there’d be no cellular plans, newspaper subscriptions or video streaming services.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2024
That will also mean setting out rules of the road for what sorts of chips, AI training data and other code ... can be housed in the data centers that countries around the world are racing to build to localize AI information.
—Mike Allen, Axios, 25 July 2024
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“Rule of the road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rule%20of%20the%20road. Accessed 17 Sep. 2024.
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