{"id":100727,"date":"2026-01-15T01:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100727\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:03:16","slug":"hochuls-self-driving-for-hire-av-pilot-program-draws-anxiety-from-nyc-groups-pols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100727\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul\u2019s self-driving for-hire AV pilot program draws anxiety from NYC groups, pols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/?s=state+of+the+state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gov. Kathy Hochul<\/a> pledged on Tuesday to introduce a bill paving the way for testing self-driving for-hire autonomous vehicles (AV) outside of New York City \u2014 but elected officials and activists in the Big Apple expressed anxiety over the idea.<\/p>\n<p>The policy book that accompanied the governor\u2019s annual State of the State address said she plans to put forward a measure that will \u201cadvance the next phase\u201d of a state-run pilot program by allowing the \u201climited deployment\u201d of the for-hire AVs in parts of the state other than the five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/hochul-self-driving-av-car-pilot-reactions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tHochul\u2019s self-driving for-hire AV pilot program draws anxiety from NYC groups, pols &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged on Tuesday to introduce a bill paving the way for testing self-driving for-hire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5487,46119,46120,6157,3932,75,84,83,22925,9,24,12,63,1210,34531,45264,46121],"class_list":["post-100727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-autonomous-vehicles","tag-avs","tag-black-car-fund","tag-dot","tag-gov-kathy-hochul","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-transit","tag-open-plans","tag-self-driving-cars","tag-tlc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}