Somerville staff outline legal bounds, liability questions and communications options for autonomous-vehicle testing City attorneys and mobility staff told the Traffic and Parking Committee Somerville can currently restrict autonomous-vehicle testing locally but state and federal laws pending could preempt municipal regulation; staff also said no vehicles without drivers are operating in the city and that Waymo ata collection was limited to human-powered video-g)

Somerville is weighing the future of autonomous vehicle testing amid legal uncertainties and potential state preemption—what could this mean for our streets?

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