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September 20, 2016

Feds want to regulate self-driving vehicles

By JOAN LOWY and JUSTIN PRITCHARD
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The federal government, rather than states, should be in charge of regulating self-driving cars since the vehicles are essentially controlled by software, not people, Obama administration officials said Monday as they laid out the outlines of their plans to help get the technology safely onto the nation's roadways.

States have historically set the rules for licensing drivers, but when the driver becomes a computer “we intend to occupy the field here,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said. States, he said, should stick to registering cars and dealing with questions of liability when they crash.


 
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