Mark DeSaulnier actually said...

"In California, we didn't allow AVs on the streets. One of the operators, a famous one in the East Bay, Tesla, decided to take it to another State. Within a few months, there were fatalities because th..."

"Forty-two thousand people dying each year on our roads is not acceptable."

"I have spent a long time with my colleague Congressman Steve Cohen trying to protect the public from the horrors of side underride crashes, which as you know can result in gruesome deaths and injuries..."

"I brought Peter DeFazio, when he was chair of this committee, and we were in an AV going across the Bay Bridge, and he had a phone call, somebody in Oregon. He said, 'I am with Mark in San Francisco. ..."