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November 18, 2015

Texas gives warm welcome to Google cars

  • Unlike California, Texas has no obvious restrictions on self-driving vehicles and Google wants to keep it that way.
  • By PAUL J. WEBER and JUSTIN PRITCHARD
    Associated Press

    AUSTIN, Texas — With Google's self-driving cars slowed in a gridlock of California regulation, Texas is offering a fast lane.

    Officials in Austin have embraced the technology, a welcome so warm that the mayor used talking points written by a Google lobbyist when the tech titan began testing prototypes on their streets over the summer.


     
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