In the minds of some movers and shakers in the automobile industry, self-driving cars are the wave of the future. For investors and big business, the safe bet is that laissez-faire policies will win the day. But for consumers and workers, that very well may lead to unsafe and unstable futures.
And now politicians on Capitol Hill — in a rare act of bipartisanship — have passed legislation that threatens the safety of millions of motorists on U.S. roads and highways by stripping away state consumer protection regulation.
