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Regulators Move to Rewrite Rules for Self-Driving Cars

November 1, 2017

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is considering eliminating regulations that currently block self-driving vehicles designed without steering wheels, brake pedals or other driver controls from hitting the road.

The agency, in a document posted online, said it will soon ask automakers and technology companies to identify “any unnecessary regulatory barriers to automated safety technologies.”’

The move is an early signal that the Trump administration plans a formal effort to reshape auto safety regulations to accommodate self-driving vehicles. Companies including General Motors Co. and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo are racing to develop self-driving car technologies that need no human intervention, which could one day lead to vehicles with radically different designs, such as lounge-like cabin configurations.

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