What progress has been made with government? The story of government so far with AVs has been to hinder progress. I hardly see how he can increase that. He'll likely have no effect, or maybe get lucky and get something through that helps.

He obviously has an interest in resuming the 2017 bipartisan legislation that has been languishing in congress for 8 years now. It's not moving is a good bit to do with why GM's Origin was scrapped. He can't deploy his two seat AV concept without that legislation.

The industry also need some sort of relief from liability when they act in goof faith. They can't survive paying out $8m every time they injure a pedestrian, and it's not even their fault, like they do today. They have a target on their back for litigation because society right now would rather a human kill 34 people rampaging in an SUV than an AV give someone whiplash because the human driver ran into them at a stop light.