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The U.S. House on Wednesday unanimously approved a sweeping proposal to speed the deployment of self-driving cars without human controls by putting federal regulators in the driver's seat and barring states from blocking autonomous vehicles.
The House measure, the first significant federal legislation aimed at speeding self-driving cars to market, would allow automakers to obtain exemptions to deploy up to 25,000 vehicles without meeting existing auto safety standards in the first year. The cap would rise over three years to 100,000 vehicles annually.
How will the young impress each other with their mad driving skillz now?
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U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 08 2017, @02:35AM (1 child)
I can see how it could, but that only applies to instances where it actually does.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday September 08 2017, @02:09PM
Indeed. You have any legitimate reasons why you think this law is unconstitutional or is this all going to devolve to "I don't see it"? I came up with a reason, whether or not you choose to see it.
I'll note here that the actual wording of the Commerce Clause is more general than merely regulating state interference with interstate commerce. And let us note that someone like Alexander Hamilton (in other words, the authoritarian side of the founders of the Constitution) would have a much more expansive view of the Commerce Clause (probably even stronger than the present) than the Anti-federalists like Thomas Jefferson. Interpreting the Constitution by the intent of its founders is a fool's errand with such a diverse ideological group.