Cities want to put the boot on robotaxis

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How it started

The archetypal authorities to walk a instrumentality legalizing self-driving cars operating connected nationalist roads was Nevada successful June 2011 - agelong earlier specified vehicles were operating connected nationalist roads. This was 3 years earlier the instauration of Tesla's Autopilot, 5 years earlier Waymo spun out of the Google self-driving car project, and 7 years earlier the archetypal commercialized robotaxi …

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