{"id":354187,"date":"2026-09-23T02:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354187\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T02:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:28:09","slug":"committee-formed-to-advocate-for-self-driving-cars-in-n-y-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354187\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee formed to advocate for self-driving cars in N.Y."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A newly formed advocacy group is seeking to boost support for self-driving cars, which are currently not allowed to operate in New York state.<\/p>\n<p>The group is called A Better Road Forward and is backed by Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by the parent company of Google.<\/p>\n<p>The group has launched its first TV ad, hoping to win over policymakers and the public.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny Burgos is a member of the group&#8217;s advisory board; he&#8217;s a former state assembly member and currently the head of the New York Apartment Association. Basil Seggos is the chair of the advisory board; he&#8217;s also the former head of the State&#8217;s Department of Environmental Conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A newly formed advocacy group is seeking to boost support for self-driving cars, which are currently not allowed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[378,116,25,377,379,9,24,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,108,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-354187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-inside-city-hall","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-inside-city-hall-segments","tag-inside-city-hall-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354187","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=354187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}