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

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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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by meustrus on Friday September 08 2017, @03:49PM

    by meustrus (4961) on Friday September 08 2017, @03:49PM (#565154)

    So much for local control. So much for states rights. States are the "laboratories of democracy", except when some business wants to "speed the deployment" of their product. Then the rights of state and local governments to control their own territory, their own public property, and the legal rights of their own citizens must succumb to the will of the federal-corporate complex.

    Everyone wants to use the federal government the enforce their will. When politicians talk about "state's rights", it's not because they have any respect for local control. Shit like this proves they don't no matter what they say. They talk about "state's rights" because they're losing.

    Well, this time we all lost.

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