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Select committee opens discussion on autonomous vehicles; proposes exploratory pilot and further stakeholder outreach
Summary
The committee heard a brief presentation urging an exploratory autonomous-vehicle pilot and statutory clarity on liability and insurance. Legislators directed staff to continue outreach to industry and regulators and to consider revisiting legislation drafted in prior sessions.
The select committee discussed autonomous vehicles in a short session at the end of the meeting and agreed to continue outreach and research rather than pursue immediate legislation. David Pope, a governor’s liaison and committee presenter, urged the committee to explore an autonomous-vehicle pilot — a test the presenter called a Wyoming Autonomous Vehicle Exploratory (WAVES) project — to measure whether the state could safely deploy vehicle fleets for uses such as the state…
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