With more than 90 percent of those deaths attributable to human error, self-driving vehicles--which, after all, can't fall asleep, use drugs or alcohol, or get distracted by texting--have the potential to reduce these tragic numbers dramatically.
Thune emphasizes the safety potential of self-driving vehicles in reducing traffic fatalities.
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Again, the question is $60 billion worth the risk of putting something like that on the floor, and all the other harm that could potentially come from that.
I hope that's not necessary. We've had conversations, productive conversations, on both sides of the aisle on a funding resolution that would carry us past the November election.
That is something that I intend to bring to the floor for a vote before the August break.
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