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The House approved a bill to put more self-driving cars on U.S. roads - but the Senate will be another story - https://www.recode.net/2017/9/6/16259306/house-senate-self-driving-driverless-cars-autonomous
" Lawmakers still have to weigh measures to fund the government, raise the debt ceiling and pay for the relief efforts in Texas after Hurricane Harvey, if not another storm barreling toward Miami.
Amid all of that, the chamber still aims to tackle tax reform, at the urging of President Donald Trump. And it could turn unexpectedly to immigration, after Trump on Tuesday scrapped a program that protected young adults from deportation.
For its part, the Trump administration is expected to issue its own guidelines for self-driving cars as soon as next week. It's supposed to be an update of the voluntary safety checklist of sorts first issued under former President Barack Obama in 2016.
The agency, though, faces its own series of roadblocks. The Transportation Department's safety watchdog - the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - still has no permanent director. Trump hasn't even nominated anyone to the post. NHTSA, however, is tasked in the House's just-passed bill with writing new safety rules around the construction of self-driving cars.
Meanwhile, a panel of industry executives advising the U.S. government on driverless-car technology essentially has fallen apart under Trump. The group hasn't met even once, sources told Recode."
