The center of American automobile innovation     1    (move) 2,000 miles away in the past decade. It has migrated from Detroit to Silicon Valley,     2     self-driving vehicles are coming into life.

In a bid to take production back to Detroit, Michigan lawmakers have introduced legislation   that could make their state     3    (good) place in the country, if not the world, to develop self-driving vehicles and put them on the road.

“Michigan’s role in auto research and development is under attack from several states and countries which desire to take     4     place of our leadership in transportation. We can’t let happen,” says Senator Mike Kowall, the lead sponsor of four bills     5    (recent) introduced.

If all four bills pass as     6    (write), they would represent an important update of Michigan’s 2013 law that allowed the testing of self-driving vehicles in limited conditions. Manufacturer would have nearly total freedom     7    (test) their self-driving technology on public roads. They would     8    (allow) to send groups of self-driving cars on cross-state road trips, and even set on-demand rows of self-driving cars, like the one General Motors and Lyft are building.

Lawmakers in Michigan clearly want to make the state ready for the commercial use of self-driving technology.     9    contrast, California, home of Silicon Valley, proposed far more restrictive rules that would require human drivers be ready for the commercial     10    (apply) of self-driving technology.