Here’s why the autonomous vehicle industry needs lobbyists already
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ou can’t buy an autonomous vehicle yet, but the fledgling industry has already begun lobbying the government, which is eager to start regulating.
Read More →Sorting out Tennessee’s new liquor laws
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You can now buy wine in Tennessee grocery stores, but the state still has a complicated set of laws regulating the sale of alcohol products.
Read More →Nanny State of the Week: Common sense goes to the dogs in Phoenix
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Phoenix wants you to be smarter about walking your dog in extreme heat. Kind of. Sort of. The City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Board voted late last month to ban hikers from taking their dogs on city trails in temperatures over 100 degrees. In the average year, highs in Phoenix surpass 100 degrees on 107 days […]
Read More →Want to cut regulations? Cut regulators
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More funding for a regulatory agency, more regulations? Almost always. More regulators, more regulations? Even more likely. A new study by researchers at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University shows that the correlation between employment and new regulations is a bit higher than the correlation between agency budgets and new regulations – though not by a lot. And […]
Read More →Autonomous vehicle guidelines won’t go through federal rulemaking process
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Guidelines for autonomous vehicles will be released this summer after internal review, Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx said Wednesday.
Read More →Toyota invests in autonomous vehicles amid regulatory uncertainty
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The federal government is preparing to release guidelines for driverless cars as more automakers and tech companies are joining the fray to develop the best autonomous vehicles.
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