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Arizona Governor Helped Make State 'Wild West' For Driverless Cars

Three years ago, Gov. Doug Ducey embarked on a plan to lure companies experimenting with driverless vehicle technology to the state and in 2016, he lured Uber away from neighboring California.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey began a push three years ago to attract makers of self-driving cars to the state and actively wooed Uber away from California as a venue for testing those vehicles.

Shortly after his election in 2015, the governor supporting the testing and operation of self-driving vehicles that he said was about "innovation, economic

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