[ctoth]

The specific dishonesty is the sentence: "None of them answer the question legislators actually care about: what is this vehicle doing, moment to moment, on our roads?" Legislators did not care about that question. They cared about the Transport Workers Union and the New York Taxi Workers Alliance telling them they'd face primary challenges. No amount of cryptographically signed telemetry data changes that calculus.

[chris_money202]

New York City was not included in the proposal likely for the reason you mentioned, only cities with less than a million people