Lawmakers Want To Move Fast On Self-Driving Car Legislation (axios.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Members of Congress said Tuesday that they hope to move forward with a package of self-driving car legislation by the end of July. "We've got to keep moving, because again, this technology is moving away from us, you might say," said Republican Bob Latta, who is helping to lead the effort. That would move the bills out of the relevant committee -- but not out of the House entirely.

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Re:They're going to fast-track this

[MachineShedFred]

You do know that they aren't suspending laws about vehicular homicide and general liability with this, right? They're making a regulatory framework that allows you to have an autonomous vehicle that works properly, that doesn't stop at the state border and tell you it can't drive into Illinois* because Illinois doesn't have laws that allow it to drive you around.

If you never want to see a car that can drive itself, the best thing Congress could do to further your goals is to do nothing. Then we would end up with a patchwork of laws when every single state passes (or doesn't) varying laws making compliance impossible.

The action in Congress doesn't all of a sudden make autonomous cars work right, and it doesn't even define what "working right" is - it just allows the manufacturers to have a chance to succeed in the first place.