There’s a new robocop regulating self-driving cars—and it’s a chipmaker. 

Several driverless car companies, including those that test in Canada, have announced their own, self-determined safety standards for their technology, seemingly superseding regulators that are supposed to set the rules of the road. 

The latest came Tuesday in a major announcement by semiconductor behemoth Nvidia. CEO Jensen Huang claims he knew from the moment he saw groundbreaking work in 2012 by University of Toronto’s Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton that helping autonomous vehicles drive safely would be the chipmaker’s “destiny.”

It’s a predictable turn of events for safety researchers like Francesco Biondi. The University of Windsor associate professor has been dubious of tech companies’ past attempts to self-regulate, noting that auto companies have resisted standardizing their gear-shift designs for many decades, despite concerns those designs could lead to accidents.