Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Autonomous Vehicle Regulations: “My philosophy is this: if I move the regulations too slowly, we kill innovation, we kill the companies, or they’ll go overseas. If I go too fast and the AVs aren’t ready for the rules I give them, people get hurt. I have to find the Goldilocks approach — the right stage of where we are with AVs before we set them loose. “Congress has to say the federal government should regulate these standards. We shouldn’t have every state individually deciding yes or no, what they’ll allow and what they won’t. It’s a hodgepodge. Let us set one standard. That’s the biggest issue for AVs right now. “If you have an autonomous vehicle, do you need rearview mirrors? “Do you need windshield wipers? “Do you need a brake pedal and a gas pedal? “Do you need a steering wheel? “There are a whole bunch of conversations we have to have about what we think we need in an automobile versus what an autonomous vehicle actually should have.”