Automakers ask California to ease rules for self-driving car tests


A Google self-driving car moves along the roadway at the company's headquarters on May 17, 2016 in Mountain View, Calif. (Andrej Sokolow/DPA/Zuma Press/TNS)

WASHINGTON: Automakers urged the state of California to further ease its proposed regulations for autonomous vehicles, saying the state did not respond to their earlier objections by making enough revisions to its planned set of rules for self-driving cars. 

At a public hearing in Sacramento monitored via webcast, automakers urged California to drop some additional proposed regulations and leave much of the oversight to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. But safety and consumer advocates urged the state to adopt strict oversight, and an official from San Francisco said cities should have more local control. 

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