US push for self-driving cars faces union, lawyers opposition

The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday again rejected attempts to lift regulations to allow for the deployment of thousands of autonomous vehicles as union groups and attorneys campaign against the legislative proposal.

The committee rebuffed the bid by Republican Senator John Thune to attach measures lifting regulations on autonomous vehicles to a US$78 billion surface transportation bill after he sought last month to attach it in May to a bill on China tech policy.Thune has proposed granting the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration the power to grant exemptions for tens of thousands of self-driving vehicles per manufacturer from safety standards written with human drivers in mind.

"It seems like every other week we're hearing about a new vehicle that crashed when it was on Autopilot" Cantwell said."I do think this is legislation that we can complete by the end of this year... These last issues are very thorny as it relates to legal structure." Thune said that the"Teamsters and trial lawyers" are opposed to self-driving legislation and they"seem to own lock, stock and barrel the Democrats on this committee."The Teamsters did not immediately comment.

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