Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's the MO of airbnb, uber and other SV startups. We've seen more than once that making a land grab for a new market brings more long-term success than any penalties dished out for not playing by the rules.
> 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-...