I think if it can be solved in California, Texas, and at the federal level, the rest will follow suit.

Self-driving taxi legislature, on the other hand, will be a different can of worms.

In our current economic system, no city in its right mind will be interested in seeing robots funnel money directly from its residents to a VC fund.

What is that supposed to prove? It's a test vehicle. It's being driven by a human. There's no roadmap, there's nothing that's passed certification, there's no roadmap for when there will be something that passes certification.