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Edwards said Tesla asked for the one-on-one meeting with Musk, which was short. "I just asked him to come down to Louisiana and sit down with us, sit down with the Louisiana Automobile Dealers Association and work out some sort of a compromise, which they have successfully done in other states," Edwards said. Allowing manufacturer-to-consumer sales also came up in meetings between Musk and two other governors -- the conference's host, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, and Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. Representatives for the two Democrats confirmed they had private meetings with Musk and the topic came up. Musk didn't address such rules in his public remarks, but he did speak about regulation generally -- and reiterated his long-held argument that it is needed soon to protect humanity from being outsmarted by computers, or "deep intelligence in the network" that can start wars by manipulating information.