US self-driving car bill heads to the House floor

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Last month, a Senate committee created a

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to allow autonomous vehicles onto the roads under specific safety and "tech neutral" requirements. Now that the bill has hit House of Representatives, the bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee

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to send it along to the full chamber. The Safely Ensuring Lives Future Deployment and Research In Vehicle Evolution Act, or

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, is aimed at allowing companies like

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and

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to test up to 100,000 autonomous vehicles across the country. While we're far from an actual bill, this seems like good forward movement.

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