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ARTICLE · 21 NOVEMBER 2018

Autonomous Vehicles Start Act Legislative Update

Bracing for a chaotic four-week period during which Republicans hope to clear the legislative decks before unified GOP control expires at year's end, lawmakers returned to Washington Tuesday to the sound of a fast-ticking lame duck clock.

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Bracing for a chaotic four-week period during which Republicans hope to clear the legislative decks before unified GOP control expires at year's end, lawmakers returned to Washington Tuesday to the sound of a fast-ticking lame duck clock.

Alarmed by Democrats' ascendancy and their new policy leverage, Republicans are eager to finally advance a light-touch autonomous vehicle regulatory framework after the proposal has languished for more than a year in committee over cyber and safety concerns.

In that time, a fragmented patchwork of state-level regulatory and safety regimes have propagated across the country, which industry has increasingly complained has hindered the safe and fair deployment of driverless technology in the United States. At the same time, global rivals like China have strategically normalized federal safety and testing protocols.

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