Having worked in Democratic politics since the Dot Com boom, I can tell you there’s no greater enemy of progress than the NIMBY mentality. Want renewable energy? Want affordable housing? Want health care access? For every policy fix you can imagine, there’s a progressive voter ready to tell their lawmaker, “I support progress...but not in my backyard.”
So it was a surprise when the results of a recent autonomous vehicle (AV) poll came back and found a super-majority of Democratic voters ready to introduce self-driving cars, not just on the roads, but in their own communities.
As Tesla doubles down on its “self driving” claims and lawmakers weigh how to regulate the growing AV industry, our organization, the Chamber of Progress, looked at what voters, especially Democratic voters, feel about the issue.
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