California bill aims to put more human operators on robotaxis like Waymo’s: “Proposal is potentially crippling’

A Silicon Valley lawmaker wants to require robotaxis like Google’s Waymo to hire human operators to be on standby locally in case the system goes haywire – like it did last winter when a blackout in San Francisco created a logjam of paralyzed robot cars.

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