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Car makers ask US to slow down on allowing self-driving cars

A Google self-driving car. (credit: Google)

As US regulators consider issuing guidance allowing the sale of self-driving cars, an industry group representing automakers has urged the government to take things slow.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said in January that within six months it intended to "develop guidance on the safe deployment and operation of autonomous vehicles." The...

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Tesla defends selling cars directly to the customer at FTC panel

Collins Oldsmobile, Indianapolis IN, 1971 (credit: Alden Jewell)

On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) assembled a panel of experts in auto manufacturing and marketing to talk about whether or not automakers should be allowed to sell cars directly to customers.

Representatives from Tesla Motors, as well as Elio Motors, a company that has plans to manufacture...

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German paper says Volkswagen will likely buy 115,000 cars back from US owners

On Thursday a German newspaper reported that Volkswagen Group "assumes it will have to buy back about 115,000 cars in the United States," according to Reuters.

Volkswagen officials have been working with US regulators to come to an agreement about how best to fix the nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles in the US that were discovered to illegally include software—generically called a defeat device—that thwarts the emissions...

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