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posted by FatPhil on Tuesday August 08 2017, @03:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the vote-for-the-motion,-or-roko's-basilisk-will-run-you-over dept.

United States House Republicans expect to introduce bills later this week that would bar states from setting their own rules for self-driving cars and take other steps to remove obstacles to putting such vehicles on the road, a spokeswoman said.

The legislative action comes as major automakers are joining forces with auto suppliers and other groups to prod Congress into action.

Last month, a US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce subcommittee held a hearing on a Republican draft package of 14 bills that would allow US regulators to exempt up to 100,000 vehicles a year per manufacturer from federal motor vehicle safety rules that prevent the sale of self-driving vehicles without human controls.

[...] GM, Alphabet Inc., Tesla Inc., and others have been lobbying Congress to pre-empt rules under consideration in California and other states that could limit self-driving vehicle deployment.

As the number of self-driving cars on the road grows, will drivers proceeding on manual game the self-driving algorithms and lead to a ban on non-self-driving cars?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 08 2017, @05:53PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 08 2017, @05:53PM (#550681)

    yes, and they will, no doubt, use this as bait. once they bribe people into giving away the rest of (what practically speaking equates to) their right to drive, then they are free to control when and where you can drive. that is at least one of the end goals of all this. like they give a shit about how many people die besides the wasted money involved...

    need to go to the store for some critical supplies? car: "i'm sorry dave, you're all out of Food Depot Drive Credits. Please reduce your carbon footprint 2% to earn more". dave: "and how the hell am i supposed to do that? I''ve already gotten rid of everything!" car: "Rover is burning $x amount of carbon per month. just saying..."

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday August 08 2017, @07:13PM

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday August 08 2017, @07:13PM (#550715) Journal

    that is at least one of the end goals of all this.

    Tin foil hat a little tight this morning?

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