Lawmakers in the House took a major step on Wednesday toward advancing the development of driverless cars, approving legislation that would put the vehicles onto public roads more quickly and curb states from slowing their spread.
Under the bill, which was approved by a unanimous voice vote, carmakers can add hundreds of thousands of self-driving cars to America's road in the next few years. States, which now have a patchwork of rules regulating the vehicles, would have to follow the new federal law.
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