Proposed California law limits self-driving cars, ticks off Google

Autonomous cars have been tested in California for a while. Now state regulators are looking towards their eventual deployment.

California's Department of Motor Vehicles proposed a new law Wednesday that would require all autonomous cars to have a steering wheel and a licensed driver behind the wheel

Under this proposed law, manufacturers of self-driving cars will be granted a three-year deployment permit, where they can lease cars to customers, but not sell them. Before leasing self-driving cars to the public, manufacturers would have to verify safety and subject their products to third-party testing. Read more...