Self-driving Waymo taxis are not an uncommon sight on the streets of Washington these days, although they don\u2019t quite drive themselves yet: Before the company offers autonomous service in an area, it needs to demonstrate the adequacy of its mapping and various supporting technologies by having cars with so-called safety drivers, who sit behind the wheel but don\u2019t touch it.<\/p>\n
Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, wants to keep them there<\/a>. He\u2019s planning to introduce what he is calling the Autonomous Vehicle Safety Act, which would require human safety drivers in any car that\u2019s on the road. A better name for it would be the Thank Teamsters for Refusing to Endorse Kamala Harris Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Self-driving Waymo taxis are not an uncommon sight on the streets of Washington these days, although they don\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,4857,12809,85,46,265,15964,15963,15965,4674,125,7735,7740,730],"class_list":["post-16082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-automotive","tag-autonomous-vehicle","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jobs","tag-kamala-d-harris","tag-missouri","tag-phoenix","tag-san-francisco","tag-technology","tag-u-s-republicans","tag-view","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}