Posted on 08/31/2017 10:27:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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.
Automakers and technology companies including General Motors Co and Alphabet Inc’s’ self-driving unit Waymo have been pushing for new federal rules making it easier to deploy self-driving technology, while some consumer groups have sought additional safeguards.
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>> and bar states from blocking autonomous vehicles
FUFEDGOV
People will stop Buying Cars if you can’t drive them you fools,LOL
These “Self Driving”cars have to be fail safe.There are to many chances for people being killed.
They should require all cars drive around Capitol Hill for at least a month before deployment. Since this is lobbyist driven legislation a few casualties would be ok for the beta test. :-)
What do you think their goal was anyway?
Individually owned vehicles gave the public entirely too much autonomy.
I would settle for self-legislating Congresspeople.
This will get worse before it gets better.
There is AT LEAST one trillion dollars at stake in the first 5 years.
OF COURSE Congress will take the payoffs to enable it.
Safety be damned.
Oh, and these cars without the proper advanced freeway infrastructure ARE DANGEROUS.
Safety will require at least 100 sensors/wireless transceivers per mile, all connected via fiber optic cable, on busy freeway sections.
10 per mile out in the sticks.
To make the concept real they’ll have to shift the economy toward at least a $1 trillion per year investment for 20 years.
Silicon Valley is salivating.
THis those F N morons can do!?! I wonder how much all of them are getting kickbacks for this, opps reelection funds!-)
“Silicon Valley is salivating.”
So are the personal injury lawyers-it will become their next cash cow...
the government once again favoring a particular business over others.
This is the kind of foul skullduggery that gives ammunition to leftards.
These “Self Driving”cars have to be fail safe.There are to many chances for people being killed.
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Many thousands of Americans die on the road every year with the “safe” technology we have now.
“So are the personal injury lawyers-it will become their next cash cow.”
yep. and as well it should, given the extreme likelihood of continuous death and mayhem from this not-yet-ready-for-prime-time technology.
and the great thing about this from a liability lawyer’s standpoint is that almost all accidents nowadays are caused by the drivers and NOT by faulty or unsafe auto design or manufacturing. Therefore, the main liability targets heretofore have been the bad drivers and their insurance companies.
with driverless cars, there’s no possibility that the drivers can be at fault since there aren’t any, and therefore 100% chance that the manufacturers are at fault, and the manufacturers have DEEP pockets. quite quickly, driverless car makers will be sued out of existence unless states absolve their liability, at which point it becomes open season on the innocents by driverless car manufactures.
> People will stop Buying Cars if you can’t drive them you fools,LOL
I know that for me, I can’t wait for self-driving cars. I’m so over wasting time having to pay attention to traffic.
Millions of trucking jobs will cease to exist
People will stop Buying Cars if you can’t drive them you fools,LOL
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What makes you think the old tech will go away any time soon?
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, had warned patriots to be on their guard against the feds unconstitutionally expanding their powers.
”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
Although Trump is accomplishing a LOT as president, it remains that since the uniparty Congress wants to get rid of him that his first two years in office are arguably just practice. That being said ...
Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!
Remember in November 2018 !
Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed here.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Also, unlike incumbent members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.
Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!
I know that for me, I can’t wait for self-driving cars. I’m so over wasting time having to pay attention to traffic.
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Yep. As long as people have a choice to drive or not to drive it should be OK.
“Safety will require at least 100 sensors/wireless transceivers per mile, all connected via fiber optic cable, on busy freeway sections.”
Not true.
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