'The Google researchers said they had carefully examined California’s motor vehicle regulations and determined that because a human driver can override any erro

'The Google researchers said they had carefully examined California’s motor vehicle regulations and determined that because a human driver can override any error, the experimental cars are legal' [1] That's from a 2010 NYT article by John Markoff. They ultimately hired Ron Medford, former NHTSA director to lead a big Johnny Appleseed awareness raising campaign with regulators, but initially they just went and started testing. [1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html?referer=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/ https://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html?...