Barra meets with U.S. senators on self-driving cars

WASHINGTON — Normal Motors CEO Mary Barra met with two key U.S. senators on Thursday because the automaker pushes for laws to hurry deployment of self-driving autos on U.S. roads. Barra met with Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Sen. Gary Peters, a fellow Democrat and a Commerce Committee member, the corporate confirmed. Congress has been stymied for greater than six years over laws to ease laws that will permit for the deployment of hundreds of autonomous autos. “We should act to make sure U.S. producers can compete with international locations like China, create jobs right here and enhance roadway security,” stated Peters, who represents Michigan, the place GM is predicated. He added that Barra mentioned with the lawmakers “the way forward for mobility — together with autonomous autos.”