DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (CBS) -- Imagine a world where your commute to work is your actual office, or where you can comfort your crying child in the backseat without having to pull off the road.

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Absent a federal standard, states that allow autonomous vehicles, or AVs, to circulate have had to make up their own rules.

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