Michigan Pitching Itself as Autonomous Vehicle Playland

Clean Technica: In what looks more like a move to unlock Michigan for incumbent auto manufacturers than a move to make itself more Tesla friendly, a new bill seeks to make the state more friendly to autonomous vehicle technology development.

Being the home to many large automakers, notably General Motors and Ford, Detroit (and more broadly, Michigan) is effectively under attack by the flood of electric vehicle manufacturers standing up new manufacturing plants out on the West Coast of the US. The new wave is swelling up largely as a result of Tesla Motors, with the latest surge coming in the form of reservations for the Tesla Model 3 — the “affordable” EV.

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