SELF DRIVING CARS TO BE THE NORM IN SF CA AS THE DMV RELEASES NEW REGULATION CONTROLLING THE INHUMAN CAR WILL ALLOW 27 COMPANIES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DRIVERLESS CAR TRANSPORTATION AS EARLY AS NEXT YEAR

Self-driving cars with no human behind the wheel — or, for that matter, any steering wheel at all — may soon appear on California’s public roads, under regulations state officials proposed Friday.
The rules represent a delicate balance, trying to ensure the safety of a new technology many people don’t trust while avoiding tough restrictions that could send car companies fleeing to other states.
Until now, California has required all 27 companies testing autonomous cars in the state to have someone in the driver’s seat, ready to take over, when testing on public roads. And those vehicles needed to have steering wheels and brake pedals, even if some self-driving car engineers didn’t consider them necessary.
 
Both of those requirements would disappear under the new regulations proposed by the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
Instead, automakers would need to certify to the state that their own testing — either on closed tracks or through computer modeling — shows the cars are ready to operate on public roads with no one behind the wheel. Tests with no driver would require an operator monitoring the car, ready to steer via remote control if necessary.

Source: (CA) DMV
By the numbers
27 Number of companies testing self-driving cars in California
180 Number of licensed self-driving cars in California
658 Number of drivers permitted to test-drive autonomous cars in California
Leaders: Google/Waymo (77 cars, 239 drivers); GM/Cruise (27 cars, 55 drivers); Tesla (24 cars, 64 drivers)


 http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/DMV-Humans-soon-no-longer-required-in-10993072.php