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U.S. House Unanimously Approves Sweeping Self-Driving Car Measure

posted by takyon on Thursday September 07 2017, @11:38PM   
from the autonomous-legislature dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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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• Re:Just think of how many lives will be saved... Re:Just think of how many lives will be saved... (Score: 2) by frojack on Friday September 08 2017, @04:04AM (1 child)

  by frojack (1554) on Friday September 08 2017, @04:04AM (#564928) Journal

  Or send it to clog any random street, regardless of how far away it its.

  Chances are before that happens you won't own the car but simply use it, and dismiss it.
  Want to go home, summon the rental again, have it show up with the seats full of feces.

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• Re:Just think of how many lives will be saved... (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 08 2017, @10:51AM

  by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday September 08 2017, @10:51AM (#565015)

  Yep, just like Uber/Taxis today, just displacing the drivers with robots.

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