Negotiations on the Senate’s self-driving car bill, S. 1885 (115), are rolling along slowly. Our Tanya Snyder reported Tuesday that the group representing trial lawyers — whose problems with the legislation have been one of the factors holding it up for months — still hasn’t heard back from Senate leaders about provisions that it says could protect companies from lawsuits. “When you’re attempting to regulate in an entirely new space, it’s important to preserve existing rights people have under state laws,” an American Association for Justice spokesperson told Tanya. “Broadly, all of our suggested changes fall within that category.”
