[THEHILL] President B.O. is calling for politicians to spend $4 billion on the development of self-driving cars.It's probably a dumb question, but how's that a federal govt responsibility?
The B.O. regime said Thursday the money would be used "to accelerate the development and adoption of safe vehicle automation through real-world pilot projects."
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that automated cars on U.S. roads more quickly would pay dividends in safety improvements.
"We know that 80 percent of car accidents are due to human error. So we ask ourselves, what happens if human error was eliminated?" Foxx said.
"If the technology meets its promise, my back of the envelope math tells me that more than 25,000 lives would have been saved in 2015 alone," he continued. "That is powerful possibility, and that is not only worth pursuing, it is worth working aggressively to determine whether or not it is true."