NY to approve self-driving car tests
ALBANY - Public highways in New York will soon be open to testing self-driving cars, but only for the next year.
Tucked into a state budget bill approved by lawmakers this week is a measure allowing autonomous vehicles on New York's highways, but it's limited to testing or demonstrations.
A decades-old state law requiring drivers to keep at least one hand on the wheel has kept self-driving cars off of the state's roadways, despite Google and major automakers like Toyota and Volkswagen lobbying for a change in recent years.
The budget measure changes that for autonomous car testing, while requiring all tests happen under the "direct supervision of the New York State Police."
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