New bill from the US House of Representatives:
The House voted Wednesday to speed the introduction of self-driving cars by giving the federal government authority to exempt automakers from safety standards not applicable to the technology, and to permit deployment of up to 100,000 of the vehicles annually over the next several years.
Is this "permission" a limit? Why up to 100,000 annually? Why not allow more than this? Also it puts sole responsibility to control the design into the federal government without good explanation for why. On the one hand it would probably speed deployment if only one government agency had to be worried about but at the same time it also puts perhaps a bit more control into the federal government? Thoughts? Will we see a cryptocurrency bill next?