Self-driving cars get greenlight from Mayor Adams for test run on NYC streets

Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday released new guidelines that will allow testing of self-driving cars on New York City’s streets.

The city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) unveiled a new set of safety guidelines and an application portal, allowing for the first time a wide swath of companies to test their self-driving car (also known as autonomous vehicles, or AVs) technology on the complex and chaotic roads of the five boroughs.