NEWS: A U.S. House Committee will hold a hearing on Jan 13th on bills to ease autonomous vehicle deployment without human controls. Draft proposals under consideration: • Lift cap to 90,000 per year (up from 2,500) of vehicles that could be deployed without human controls • Ban states from setting rules on autonomous driving systems • Require NHTSA to establish guidelines for calibrating advanced driver assistance systems • Address automaker complaints about barriers to robotaxi deployment • And more