Uber Refuses to Stop Self-Driving in SF, Setting Up a Legal Showdown
Found on Wired on Saturday, 17 December 2016
The legal fight started Wednesday morning when the ridesharing giant opened its fleet of autonomous Volvos to riders throughout the city. It did so without applying for a permit to test autonomous technology, arguing that California regulations governing the tech apply only to vehicles that don’t require a human supervisor.
“We respectfully disagree with the California DMV’s legal interpretation of today’s automation regulations,” Anthony Levandowski, who leads Uber’s automation efforts, said in a conference call Friday afternoon.
Until a car runs over a pedestrian and kills that person.