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The cap, Ammann wrote, "acts as a U.S.-only impediment to building these vehicles at scale in the United States." Senators John Thune and Gary Peters have been working for several years on efforts to ease restrictions on AVs. The NHTSA would need to certify self-driving vehicles exempted are at least as safe as human-driven ones. The auto industry, Alphabet Inc's Waymo and others have been pushing for years to convince Congress to speed self-driving vehicle deployment. In October, Cruise said it planned to seek NHTSA approval to deploy a limited number of Cruise Origin vehicles without steering wheels or pedals.