Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car project, has sent a letter to US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today with a plan for selling autonomous vehicles that have no steering wheels or pedals, AP reports. The plan appears to be pretty straightforward: Urmson argues that if a self-driving car can pass standardized federal safety tests, they should be road-legal. Urmson adds that regulators could "set conditions that limit use based on safety concerns," AP says, though it's not clear exactly what those conditions or concerns might be.
In recent months, regulators, automakers, and tech companies alike have all expressed interest in accelerating rulemaking that gets out of the way of autonomous cars. Current rules, many...
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