Autonomous cars are one step closer to driving passengers in Oakland and other East Bay cities.
But can they navigate Oakland’s hundreds of potholed roads and the prevalence of red-light running and speeding that makes driving dangerous in the city?
Those are some of the questions locals are asking a few days after the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles approved Waymo, a San Francisco company, to “conduct driverless testing and deployment operations” in the East Bay, including Berkeley, Fremont, Hayward, Alameda, and Oakland…