US plan to rewrite road safety rules to facilitate self-driving vehicles

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Vehicle safety rules mandating steering wheels, pedals and mirrors could all be canned

The US government is considering a rewrite of US vehicle safety rules in a bid to facilitate the adoption of self-driving vehicles. In the process, rules requiring vehicles to have steering whee...

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