"House to vote on
self-driving car legislation next week":
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote
Wednesday on a sweeping proposal to speed the deployment of self-driving
cars without human controls and bar states from blocking autonomous
vehicles, congressional aides said.
The bill,
which was passed unanimously by a House panel in July, would allow
automakers to obtain exemptions to deploy up to 25,000 vehicles without
meeting existing auto safety standards in the first year, a cap that
would rise to 100,000 vehicles annually over three years.