As driverless Waymo service rolls out to new cities across the U.S., Boston is trying to pump the brakes on autonomous vehicles.
This past Thursday, at-large City Councilors Erin Murphy and Henry Santana unveiled a proposed ordinance that would prohibit commercial autonomous vehicle operations in the city until a new advisory committee comprised of city officials and labor union representatives completed a study of the technology's impacts on traffic and employment.
Following that study's completion, this advisory committee—which would have to include representatives from the App Drivers Union, the Greater Boston Labor Council, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and the local United Food and Commercial Workers union—would recommend to the mayor whether autonomous vehicles should be allowed to operate at all in the city.
