EDGEWATER, Maryland—With headlines galore signaling the coming of the driverless car, the federal government has done what it does best. It has announced a plan to regulate.
In Washington, this is not exactly big news. The gleaming Department of Transportation complex on New Jersey Avenue houses hundreds of people who have come to Washington essentially for one reason: to regulate.
Show them an innovation as juicy as the driverless car, and they begin salivating like hungry dogs. They can’t resist.