{"id":139563,"date":"2026-02-20T02:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139563\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T02:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:08:22","slug":"hochul-backpedals-on-self-driving-car-pilot-outside-nyc-after-driver-group-outcry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139563\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul backpedals on self-driving car pilot outside NYC after driver group outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/governor.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gov. Kathy Hochul<\/a> reversed course on her State of the State proposal to establish a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/hochul-self-driving-av-car-pilot-reactions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pilot program testing for-hire self-driving cars<\/a> in municipalities outside of New York City, her office confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul\u2019s shift in gears on her proposal to test Waymo self-driving cars on upstate streets came after to strong backlash from for-hire vehicle driver groups and safe streets advocates. The change was made official in her 30-day amendments to her state budget proposal.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/hochul-ends-self-driving-car-pilot\/\" 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 backpedals on self-driving car pilot outside NYC after driver group outcry &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Gov. Kathy Hochul reversed course on her State of the State proposal to establish a pilot program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58854,32701,46120,58855,58856,3932,9,16152,12,56,63,65,64,1210,58857],"class_list":{"0":"post-139563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-adam-kovacevich","9":"tag-bhairavi-desai","10":"tag-black-car-fund","11":"tag-chamber-for-progress","12":"tag-for-hire-vehicle","13":"tag-gov-kathy-hochul","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-taxi-workers-alliance","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-headlines","20":"tag-nyc-news","21":"tag-nyc-transit","22":"tag-sean-butler"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139563","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=139563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139563\/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=139563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}