Last December, Uber clashed with California regulators when it tested its self-driving cars in San Francisco without permission from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The company now has several dozen driverless cars in a garage there that is the size of two football fields, with plans to add more cars. Groups representing the blind are enthusiastic supporters of driverless cars, which could give their members more independence. Already, the incorporation of driverless cars into human-driven traffic has run into problems. If the crash had turned into a criminal case, police would likely have asked for data from the self-driving cars.

Source: New York Times November 11, 2017 17:48 UTC