Robot Cars

The gap between what's on the street and what cities can actually see, price, or enforce is the defining curb management problem of the next decade. And no one is treating it with any urgency.

California Department of Motor Vehicles withdraws permit to Cruise after one of its robo-cars drags a pedestrians across the pavement. So what about all the human drivers who are just as dangerous or much more so?

"Right now, AV-makers would have us believe that all of our transportation concerns will go away if we simply replace human drivers with computers. But we know this is not true."

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AV execs need to stop co-opting Vision Zero

Testing of driverless cars in California without a backup driver behind the wheel could begin as early as Monday, according to rules passed down from the Department of Motor Vehicles last month.