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How it started
The first state to pass a law legalizing self-driving cars operating on public roads was Nevada in June 2011 – long before such vehicles were operating on public roads. This was three years before the introduction of Tesla’s Autopilot, five years before Waymo spun out of the Google self-driving car project, and seven years before the first commercial robotaxi …
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