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> The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday voted to lift all restrictions for Cruise and Waymo’s full commercialization in the city amid vocal opp
by ambicapter 3y ago
> The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday voted to lift all restrictions for Cruise and Waymo’s full commercialization in the city amid vocal opposition from city officials.
Why do the state's removal of restrictions override the city's? Surely if the city officials had objections they can just impose their own restrictions within city limits?
- dmoy 3y agoIdk how California law works for this particular area, but some states for certain types of things have state-level preemption, placing limits what local governments can restrict or apply. Though it's a lot more common for things like tax, it happens for a wide variety of subjects: https://ballotpedia.org/Preemption_conflicts_between_state_and_local_governments https://ballotpedia.org/Preemption_conflicts_between_state_a... I wonder if something like that is happening here
- semiquaver 3y agoThe state is sovereign, the city is not. All authority the city has has been delegated by state laws. The state (wisely) does not want to delegate transportation regulation to thousands of municipalities.
- ambicapter 3y agoThat makes sense. I guess I would expect the state to be more conservative in its rulings than the city.