California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks::California’s State Senate this week passed a bill which, if signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, would require autonomous semi-trailer trucks to have a trained human safety operator whenever they operate on public roads […]
Was not taxing them keeping the costs down? I hadn’t noticed.
Things can cost more.
Cost is determined more by what people are willing to pay and less by what it costs to make the product.
If they can charge $5 for a bottle of water, they’re going to do that whether it’s costs $1 or $2 to make.
So if they could increase costs today, they would. An increased tax would give them a politically friendly exercuse to do so, but it’s just an excuse. They’d do it either way.