NYC to test Waymo self-driving cars on crowded Manhattan and Brooklyn streets: 'A really bad idea'

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New York City approved the testing of self-driving cars on crowded streets in Manhattan and Brooklyn — but critics want to pump the brakes on the “dangerous,” big tech-boosting plan.

Mayor Eric Adams and transportation officials on Friday announced the city’s first-ever pilot program for autonomous vehicles, which allows eight of Waymo’s self-driving cars to hit the road with a safety “specialist” behind the wheel, effective immediately, until late September.

The city will unleash the cars south of 112th Street in Manhattan in a program that a Waymo rep said Friday was already up and running. 4

In Brooklyn, the driverless cars will roll out north of Atlantic Avenue and west of Carlton Street in neighborhoods such as Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO.

“We