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Portugal plans free zones for self-driving cars

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Axel Bugge Daniel Alvarenga
October 31, 2017 05:00 AM

LISBON -- Aiming to spur development of self-driving vehicles and drones, Portugal is planning to launch "free zones" with special regulations to allow testing of such technologies and attract investment in them.

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