{"id":2013340,"date":"2023-08-27T05:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T09:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-pushes-back-against-autonomous-trucking-bill-despite-support-from-california-democrats\/"},"modified":"2023-08-27T05:14:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T09:14:34","slug":"newsom-pushes-back-against-autonomous-trucking-bill-despite-support-from-california-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-pushes-back-against-autonomous-trucking-bill-despite-support-from-california-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom resists autonomous trucking bill despite backing from CA Dems."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnewsom-pushes-back-against-autonomous-trucking-bill-despite-support-from-california-democrats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2013340&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>California Democrats Clash Over Self-Driving Trucks<\/h2>\n<p>California Democrats are facing an unexpected internal conflict as they \u2063strive to keep self<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/self-driving-truck-startup-fires-ceo-over-improper-ties-to-chinese-firm\/\" title=\"Self-Driving Truck Startup Fires CEO Over Improper Ties to Chinese Firm\">-driving trucks<\/a> weighing over 10,000 pounds off the roads without a safety operator. Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s administration has opposed a\u200b bill sponsored by Democratic Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and supported by the Teamsters Union, which aims to regulate self-driving trucks. The bill, known as \u2062AB 316, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/standoff-between-chicago-public-schools-and-teachers-continues\/\" title=\"Standoff between Chicago Public Schools and teachers continues\">made significant progress<\/a> in the state legislature, but Newsom&#8217;s open\u2062 opposition\u200d suggests \u2062he may \u200dveto it \u200dif it reaches his desk.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOur state is on the cusp of a new era and\u200c cannot risk stifling innovation at this critical juncture,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cIn addition, California\u2063 has the strongest workplace \u200bstandards and\u200d worker protections in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Newsom&#8217;s office argues that AB 316 undermines California&#8217;s competitiveness and economic innovation. They also contend that the\u200c bill undermines the oversight of industry officials who regulate the \u200bprocess, such as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, California\u2063 Department of \u2062Motor Vehicles, and the U.S. Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSince\u200d 2012,\u200c California has undergone a long and thoughtful regulatory process to permit autonomous passenger vehicles and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-imposes-new-fuel-efficiency-regulations-aiming-for-zero-emissions-future\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Imposes New Fuel Efficiency Regulations, Aiming For \u2018Zero-Emissions Future\u2019\">light-duty vehicles<\/a>, and the state is currently\u200c developing its permitting framework for autonomous heavy-duty trucks,\u201d Newsom\u2019s office wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While California Democrats debate the issue, other states in the U.S. are rapidly advancing plans for commercialized autonomous driving. Many southern states,\u200b including Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, and Wisconsin, have legislation in place to regulate the testing of\u200d vehicles with autonomous \u200dtechnology. A total of \u206329 states \u200chave legislation\u200c related to autonomous \u200cdriving.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe bill fails to recognize that\u2062 the federal government and\u2062 nearly a dozen other states are \u200bmoving forward with this technology,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cAnd many of those \u200dstates are actively positioning\u2063 themselves to lure away\u2063 California-based companies and the investments and\u200b jobs they bring.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Teamsters Union argues that the legislation would protect jobs for truck drivers and ensure the safety of California&#8217;s roads.\u2063 However, the California Labor\u2063 Federation supports the\u2063 bill,\u200b along\u2064 with elected officials such as Reps. Katie Porter,\u200c Adam Schiff, and Barbara Lee.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco\u2062 Mayor London Breed has aligned with unions to support\u2062 the legislation, emphasizing that the new rules would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-pushes-back-against-autonomous-trucking-bill-despite-support-from-california-democrats\/\" title=\"Newsom resists autonomous trucking bill despite backing from CA Dems.\">harm\u2063 blue-collar workers<\/a>. \u200cBreed believes that the industry \u200dis not yet ready to\u200c move on to self-driving trucks, citing the issues faced by self-driving cars in the city.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is no way we should even\u200c be having a discussion about trucks or larger vehicles until \u2062we deal with \u200cwhat we \u200care trying to deal \u2062with on the ground,\u201d Breed said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While San Francisco opposes autonomous trucks, the city has been at the \u200dforefront of commercializing self-driving taxis. However, the approval of driverless taxi\u200c companies has faced setbacks, including traffic\u2063 blocks, collisions, and \u200bcrashes into construction sites.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenges, Assemblywoman Aguiar-Curry \u2062remains committed to\u2064 the bill, stating that higher safety standards for autonomous vehicles are necessary and\u2062 demanded by the\u200b people \u200cof California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Democrats are at odds with a fellow party member over self-driving trucks weighing over 10,000 pounds. Gov. Gavin Newsom&#8217;s administration opposes a bill by Democratic Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, backed by the Teamsters Union, which aims to ban these trucks from the road without a safety operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2013341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}