Proposed Laws May Favor General Motors? Self-Driving Cars and Sideline Competitors
A high-profile skirmish between prominent developers of self-driving technology begins next month in a California courtroom, when arguments in Waymo?s lawsuit against Uber over allegations of stolen trade secrets gets underway. Another one, which involves some of the autonomous-vehicle industry?s biggest players, so far overlooked, is already occurring in state capitals across the country.
Lawmakers in at least five states are considering legislation that, if passed in current form, could prohibit companies that are not traditional motor-vehicle manufacturers from deploying autonomous vehicles.
Just as the outcome of the Waymo-Uber lawsuit promises to play a key role in determining winners and losers in the race to deliver self-driving technology, the upcoming legislative debates are likely to have serious ramifications in the intensifying competition for a slice of an autonomous market experts say may be worth as much as $70 billion by 2030. In Massachusetts, Maryland, Georgia, Tennessee, and Illinois, lawmakers have proposed legislation that contains provisions that would limit the deployment of self-driving fleets to automaker-led or automaker-affiliated projects. At least three other states have mulled similar proposals, but resulting bills have not contained the restrictive provisions.
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?We don?t believe that manufacturers or any one industry, or any one company, for that matter, should have a monopoly on this.? ? Chan Lieu, Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets
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