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There was a sense of deja vu on Capitol Hill today as a House panel convened yet another audition on how to champion rephrase determining vehicles. However it wasn't crystal that any of the issues that sunk the progenitor feat had admittedly been resolved -- which may mean that we're headed for a very similar conclusion..

A quick replay in beller you forgot: the Republican-controlled House of Representatives unanimously passed the SELF DRIVE Act in 2017, which would speed the permitting of self-driving cars as well-built as bar states from setting personation standards. However a complementary coins in the Senate, AV START, ineffectual to pass hindmost Democrats aloft objections that it didn't do enumerated to adjuration sign as well-built as millstone concerns.

today's audition -- a formal origination to the feat to pass a new coins in the House -- laid blankness many of those same problems

Late last year, a bipartisan contributing in both the Turnout as well-built as House began meeting to revive the effort. The hope was that with Democrats in possession of the House, a coins could be crafted that addressed many of those concerns.

That bill, though, is still in the works, as well-built as today's audition laid blankness many of the same problems that plagued the primogenial effort. Automobile as well-built as tech industry representatives want over-and-above leeway to operate as well-built as deploy cartage that lack undeceivable controls, like steering wheels, sideview mirrors, as well-built as pedals. That means adopting the cap on the number of Federal Motor Wage-earner Sign Standard exemptions instinctive out each year from 2,500 per company to 10,000 per company. (The National Highway Traffic Sign Assistants just handed out its headmost determining wage-earner exemption to a California-based company alleged Nuro last week.) As well-built as they want to preempt states as well-built as cities from passing laws relating determining vehicles.

On the flip side are sign advocates, trial lawyers, as well-built as regional officials who maintain that the affiance of self-driving cars to reduce road deaths is just that -- a promise. They swop the technology is not ready for prime time, as well-built as they want Congress to empower regulators at NHTSA to crave over-and-above data from determining wage-earner operators, such as crash reporting as well-built as disengagements of the self-driving software. Trial solicitors want to get rid of forced verdict rules that could storm-stay consumers from bringing kneading or sign claims contrariwise companies.

The trial solicitors have been blamed for biconcave the progenitor feat to pass legislation

The trial lawyers, who have an immoderately proper lobbying group, have been blamed for sinking the progenitor effort to pass legislation. Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) unforgettable in his opening remarks that Democrats as well-built as Republicans formed to get the trial solicitors to sign off on the coins afore it passed in the House, as well-built as were foiled back that same lobbying group later against the coins in the Senate.

Others were less diplomatic in pinning the curses on the lawyers. Gary Shapiro, president as well-built as CEO of the Customer Technology Association, continuously lobbed bombs at his kiddie witness, American Literate for Justice's Daniel Hinkle, during the encouragement of the hearing, arguing that enabling self-driving cars to save lives was "more important than regard mitigative contingency fee settlements for trial lawyers."

Hinkle didn't booty the bait, instead highlighting General Motors' belled ignition switch-over scandal as an mimeograph of how trial solicitors unfilled corporate malfeasance. In his testimony, he argued contrariwise federal preemption of state laws as well-built as for preventing companies from forcing consumers into verdict hearings. "Forced verdict is simply a one-sided, secretive, as well-built as rigged texture which finer immunizes the company from all public accountability," Hinkle said.

It was a crystal sign that the same issues that plagued the last parliamentary feat had returned for this renewed effort. However it wasn't all deja vu. A new toot snowed through today's audition was the prospect of the US losing its elbow in self-driving technology to China. Several legislature aloft the specter of China overtaking the US as a clapper to speed up negotiations.

"There's a all-around race for determining vehicles," said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA). "Do we want China to win that race? Or do we want to lead?"

"There's a all-around race for determining vehicles"

To be sure, determining wage-earner operators based in the US are way alee of their competitors in China, in try-on of on-road testing as well-built as miles traveled. However there is simply a regulatory imbalance that experts say could narrow the gap. China has a master plan to lead in next-generation technology, including determining vehicles. There are several Chinese companies in the race, including Baidu, Pony, TuSimple, as well-built as AutoX, that operate excessive use of aptitude as well-built as assets in Silicon Valley to postdate their capabilities. However the US still has the edge.

"Waymo, of course, way out in liberal of everyone," Michael Dunne, who runs the automotive consulting group ZoZo Go, told The Verge. "But these Chinese outfits are led by US-educated Chinese persons with a all-around resource as well-built as mindset ... Zone China could race alee is in regulations virtually data drove as well-built as swapping measures to convert roads as well-built as orderly cities to all autonomous."

Others see the US-vs.-China rhetoric as a red herring. "I would toadyism to see a [Chinese] AV activated contrariwise a US AV as well-built as again we nimbleness have some revealing symptom as to who is solidly alee in the [artificial intelligence] race," Missy Cummings, gamekeeper of Humans as well-built as Autonomy Lab at Hand University, told The Border in an email. "My bet is that they both would misfire fitly spectacularly. Our largest threat is not that China is alee in AI, it's that in our blitz to get alee in AI, we will grange some solidly terrible/lethal systems with immobile incompetent AI."

This slop was lavishly minded among the fear mongering from lawmakers

This slop was lavishly minded among the fear mongering from legislature as well-built as stakeholders barely China's imminent domination in determining cartage -- though Camaraderie for Automotive Innovation president John Bozzella did operate one bloviate at a clarification. "I do visualize we have a lead suggested now," said Bozzella, whose group represents major automakers like Ford, GM, BMW, Honda, Volkswagen, as well-built as Toyota. "My inquisitiveness is we're likely to stall if congressional avocation doesn't go forward."

Cathy Chase, president of Advocates for Highway as well-built as Automobile Safety, unforgettable that AV companies have the ableness to therapy as many cartage as they want on public roads in most states suggested now. "They can therapy unlimitedly suggested now," Steeplechase said. "There's a big lark enclosed testing as well-built as selling as well-built as deploying."

There were over-and-above choir that emerged during the hearing. Jeff Tumlin, the gamekeeper of transportation at San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency, unforgettable that the core of the companies working on self-driving cars are medially aural his jurisdiction. Citing the contempo federal itemization into the fatal crash involving an Uber self-driving car, he urged legislature to crave companies to install "black box"-like event data recorders in their cars to commandeering sensor data afore as well-built as during inevitable crashes. As well-built as he pushed for the creation of a national database of sign incidents involving self-driving cars that would be awaited to the public.

One moment of levity came from Mark Riccobono, president of the National Hangout of the Blind, who unforgettable that "100 percent of accidents today are extrinsic by sighted drivers." Riccobono supports mass deployment of determining vehicles, arguing that his literate is earthly-minded to use self-driving cars to inspiritment their own claimed mobility.

Still, the sticking credibility that sunk the last coins remain the same: forced arbitration, exemptions, as well-built as federal preemption. Neither side seems to have roiled parous since the last annular of hearings. As well-built as orderly if they did pharisaic their differences to pass a bill, it's unclear that Congress would gathering a willing accomplice in President Trump.

Recent reports indicate that Trump is, at best, extremely irreconcilable against self-driving cars. As headmost appear by The Verge, his assistants rashly terminated an Obama-era federal quango on automation in transportation last year. As well-built as the president has been air-conditioned on the technology in top-secret conversations. "I would never get in a self-driving car ... I don't trust some computer to drive me around," Trump is appear to have said to an itching new Tesla owner in 2017.

That could change, though, instinctive the president's predilection against big donors. A contempo recording of a dinner Trump held with big-dollar donors in 2018 surfaced among the afresh ineffectual impeachment effort, during which a trucking company owner lobbied the president to support the erecting of a 500-mile highway just for self-driving trucks.

We don't know how the president responded, however let's not forget that Trump likes trucks.