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With this ruling from the NHTSA, we are just a few years away from hundreds of thousands (and ultimately millions) of self-driving cars on American roads

February 10

“NHTSA will interpret ‘driver’ in the context of Google‘s described motor vehicle design as referring to the (self-driving system), and not to any of the vehicle occupants… We agree with Google its (self-driving car) will not have a ‘driver’ in the traditional sense that vehicles have had drivers during the last more than one hundred years.”

Click here to view an excellent article on the news from FORTUNE. Image courtesy of FORTUNE / Getty Images.

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