The R2 recently received the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) first federal exemption to test a self-driving vehicle on public streets. “It’s a signal that the agency, which has stated publicly that it doesn’t want to stand in the way of the new technology, is likely to approve more vehicles,” University of South Carolina law professor Bryant Walker Smith, who studies vehicle automation, told PBS NewsHour.
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