New Congress looks at driverless cars

Safety advocates and consumer groups have vowed to work with lawmakers in the new Congress to modify a piece of legislation that could get more autonomous vehicles on the road, after the measure failed to pass in the last Congress.

Although proponents of the bill — called the American Vision for Safer Transportation Through Advancement of Revolutionary Technologies, or AV START, Act — argued it would enhance safety by eliminating accidents attributed to human error, safety and consumer groups took issue with several provisions that they argued could have the opposite effect.