Interesting. My guess is Uber is just planning on paying the inevitable fines as is their modus operandi. I wonder how much an infraction like this costs? I doubt there's any precedent.
> California law defines an autonomous vehicle as one that is able to drive “without the active physical control or monitoring by a human operator”.
> Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer who leads Uber’s driverless car efforts, said the fleet would be “self-driving” but not “autonomous”, making an unusual semantic distinction.
A pretty tenuous way of avoiding regulations if you ask me.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/uber-ordered-to-stop-self-...