California bill aims to put more human operators on robotaxis like Waymo’s; company says proposal would be crippling

A Silicon Valley lawmaker wants to require robotaxis like Google’s Waymo to hire local human operators to be on standby in case the system goes haywire, like it did when a recent blackout in San Francisco created a logjam of paralyzed robot cars.  State Sen. David Cortese, D-San Jose, described his proposed SB 1246 bill...