John Thune actually said...

You and the Committee are to be commended for your leadership on highway safety.

With more than 90 percent of those deaths attributable to human error, self-driving vehicles--which, after all, can't fall asleep, use drugs...

Left unchanged, these standards would make it challenging for manufacturers to test and deploy these potentially life-saving vehicles.

Yesterday, Chairman Thune, Ranking Member Nelson and I released principles for bipartisan legislation that will address these problems.