The Obama administration is expected to announce new efforts to accelerate the development of self-driving cars, according to several published reports.

Mark Rosekind, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, told reporters that Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will announce the self-driving car efforts in Detroit.

There are no federal laws governing driverless cars on U.S. roadways. States such as California and Texas have drafted rules on how autonomous vehicles can be tested on roadways. California’s Department of Motor Vehicles’ draft rules require a human driver to be behind the wheel of a self-driving car, which would be a blow to Google’s self-driving pod car, which has no steering wheel.

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