John Thune actually said...

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

Congress can help by making sure that efforts to develop self-driving vehicles aren't unnecessarily delayed or deterred by regulations.

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.