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AI Ban in Spending Bill Would Curb States’ Driverless Car Regulations | As the first fully automated 18-wheeler rolls out, states would have no ability to govern what is taking place on their own roads.
As the first fully automated 18-wheeler rolls out, states would have no ability to govern what is taking place on their own roads.
The House spending bill’s proposal to bar states from regulating artificial-intelligence systems for a decade stands to erase the only laws in America governing the use of driverless cars—vehicles that have been responsible for thousands of crashes and multiple deaths over the last four years, federal data shows. While the bill’s marquee provisions relate to gutting Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs to fund tax cuts for the rich, it also includes multiple instances of fine-print maneuvering designed to enrich the wealthy and benefit industry, as the Prospect has chronicled. The world’s wealthiest person, former White House employee Elon Musk, has long said that the fate of his car company Tesla relies on robotaxis and repeated his claim to Bloomberg last month that he will debut his autonomous ride-hailing service in Austin, Texas, in June.
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