washington u.s. congress work national self-driving vehicle legislation could replace state-by state rule make easy automakers test deploy technology senior u.s. house senate lawmakers tell reuters tuesday chairman influential house energy commerce committee say plan unveil package legislation overhaul federal rule govern self-driving vehicles get close think good package put lot work representative greg walden oregon say interview add good bipartisan agreeement hop unveil take package next month two senator john thune republican chair senate commerce committee also work legislative self-driving proposal senator gary peters michigan democrat yet get close thune say thune walden speak reuters tuesday get ride self-driving audi unit volkswagen ag vowg_p.de company alphabet inc ford motor co aggressively pursue automate technologies want unify federal regulations replace outdated rule make simple develop eventually sell technology across country spring republican staff draft summary 16 potential legislative proposals federal reform regulations circulate automakers see reuters among proposals consideration one allow u.s. transportation department exempt 100,000 autonomous vehicles current safety standards write assumption responsibility car operation rest human driver exist motor vehicle safety standards bar sale vehicles without steer wheel gas pedal example alphabet inc waymo unit call rule change another proposal would prohibit state restrict test manufacturer 250 vehicles come automakers spar california revisions self-driving car test rule thune say plan hold hear june 14 self-driving car issue put specific timetable introduce legislation say want avoid patchwork regulations 50 different state self-driving cars look cybersecurity issue key thing make sure stay lead innovation unnecessary roadblocks way balance safety walden say monday u.s. transportation department say would unveil revise self-driving guidelines within next months respond automakers call regulations sanction costly efforts put autonomous vehicles road voluntary guidelines would provide direction state self-driving cars congress work set permanent rule oversee autonomous vehicles legislation might approve year state automakers eager guidance regulators interim vehicle crash annually kill 35,000 people u.s. roads injure 2.4 million walden say goal get self-driving cars roads big number generation people would say bunch barbarians drive kid look many die every year think acceptable u.s. congress plan self-driving car legislation speed rollout