Shuster Wants Transportation Bill with Driverless Provisions

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Bill Shuster wants the next U.S. transportation bill to include provisions on driverless vehicles. Shuster gets that these vehicles are coming soon. He rode in one two years ago.

The current transportation bill expires at the end of May. The question still unresolved is whether Shuster will get his way for a five-to-six year bill or whether there will only be consensus for a stopgap measure of a short-term extension of the current law. The only aspect of the bill that is definite: There will be no increase in the gas tax. 

Driverless must be right for the country

General Motors is giving a nice size donation of $4 million to Michigan's Kettering University. The money will fund an automotive proving ground that will test, you got it, driverless vehicles. Other safety and crash tests will be done. Kettering alumni, apparently, end up in the auto industry.