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Doloresz Katanich

How the US is relaxing regulations to lead the self-driving car race

American companies developing self-driving cars will be granted exemptions from certain federal safety regulations for testing purposes, the US Department of Transportation announced on Thursday.

The department also said it will streamline crash reporting requirements involving self-driving software that billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has criticised as onerous and will work towards creating a unified set of national rules to replace the current patchwork of state-level regulations.

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