Earlier this year, Montana passed a law allowing for the use of autonomous vehicles on the state’s roadways.

Part of the bill — Senate Bill 67 —also gave the state’s Department of Transportation and Department of Justice some rulemaking authority over their use.

“The intention of this legislation is to get all parties to the table to promote the safest ways to promote autonomous technology incorporating the diverse roadways, weather, and animal-human encounters in Montana and to make Montana the showcase for advancing new technologies in transportation,” the bill’s preamble states.

The Legislature’s interim transportation committee has taken up the issue as part of a study into mass transportation and sent state Sens. Russ Tempel and Denley Loge on a mission to Arizona to find ou

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