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The top US traffic safety regulator has stressed there's no change to the government's stance to help accelerate the development of self-driving technology, despite a fatal accident involving a self-driving car.
The head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Mark Rosekind, was speaking at a symposium in San Francisco on Wednesday.
He said no one incident will derail the US government from its mission to improve safety on the roads by pursuing new lifesaving technologies.
In May, a Tesla sports car running in "Autopilot" mode collided with a tractor trailer, killing the car driver.
The US Department of Transportation has announced a plan to spend about 4 billion dollars on experiments in the next 10 years.
Published Date:2016-07-21