Los Angeles City Council Votes to Monitor Driverless Vehicles

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles City Council voted June 11 to bolster its ability to monitor and potentially regulate driverless vehicles in the city. In a 13–0 vote, council members approved recommendations to monitor and address issues with what are also known as autonomous vehicles (AVs), and backed three state bills aimed at providing municipalities more power to regulate AVs and gain access to testing data. Council members Katy Yaroslavsky and Curren Price were absent during the vote. Los Angeles World Airports, the city Department of Transportation and the Los Angeles Fire Department are expected to issue quarterly reports to the council on the deployment of AVs in the city, and will provide proposals to rectify any issues that may come up....