New Jersey could ban Tesla’s Robotaxi with one line about sensors
For more than a decade, the biggest fight in self-driving cars has played out in boardrooms and engineering labs. New Jersey now wants to settle it in law.
A bill moving through the state legislature would force any company running fully driverless cars in New Jersey to fit them with a camera system plus two other ways of sensing the road, in practice lidar and radar.
Tesla builds its cars with cameras alone. If the bill passes, its Robotaxi could not operate in the state unless it changed the hardware. The Verge first reported the details.
The measure would make New Jersey the first state to write a sensor mandate into law. A near-identical bill is already pending next door in New York. If either passes, other states could follow, and the domino effect would land squarely on Elon Musk’s camera-only bet.
What the bill actually says
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