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Self-Driving Cars Find Clearer Paths in Europe
- South Korea, China also foster autonomous-vehicle tests: BNEF
- Carmakers face ‘checkerboard’ of state-by-state rules in U.S.
Race To Build Self-Driving Cars Accelerates
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Cars that drive themselves are finding the clearest paths to showrooms in the U.K., Germany, South Korea and Singapore, where governments have enacted legislation allowing autonomous vehicles to be tested on public roads. And China’s not far behind.
Those nations are outpacing the U.S., where the absence of national legislation to clarify a “checkerboard of state rules” hampers the deployment of driverless cars, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said in a report. California and Arizona lead the 50 states in allowing tests of driverless cars and host the largest fleets, according to the report released Tuesday.