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Stop Driverless Cars from Taking Over NYC Streets

Governor Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams, New York City Council, NYC DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, and the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles

Add your name to demand an immediate halt to Waymo’s self-driving car testing in NYC and all autonomous vehicle testing in NYC, and a full ban on autonomous vehicles doing business in New York State.

We demand:

A full ban on autonomous vehicle testing on New York City streets.
A ban on autonomous vehicles from being allowed to do business in New York State. Our app workers deserve jobs, not automation.
Investments in public transit, infrastructure, and app worker protections—not reckless tech experiments.

Sign the petition now. Tell our leaders: Protect our streets. Protect our jobs. Say NO to autonomous vehicles.

Why should New York make these changes?

New York City is one of the most complex and densely populated urban environments in the world. Every day, our streets are full of life—families walking to school, cyclists and delivery workers navigating traffic, seniors crossing intersections, and people with disabilities getting where they need to go. Driverless cars pose a threat to all of us on New York’s streets.
Driverless cars have caused traffic disruptions, blocked emergency responders, made dangerous stops, and caused accidents, injuries, and even deaths where they've been allowed to operate.
Waymo, a company owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has been granted testing access for its autonomous vehicles on the busy, unpredictable streets of New York City. The company has begun testing with the stipulation that one hand from a driver must be on the wheel at all times, in accordance with New York State law.
Driverless vehicles like those from Waymo threaten to leave behind some of our most vulnerable neighbors. For people with disabilities—especially those who use wheelchairs or need assistance with packages and equipment—the presence of a trained human driver is not optional, it’s essential. Autonomous vehicles are not designed to meet the real-life needs of riders who require a helping hand.
Public transit advocates and workers also know this playbook: companies like Waymo are already operating at a loss to lure people away from public transit, just as Uber did when it first launched. This is a direct threat to our transit system and the union jobs that keep it running. If driverless vehicles are allowed to flood our streets, we risk weakening our subways and buses—just to benefit Big Tech.

Although Waymo was granted testing access, we do not want this to continue. And we do not want testing to open the door for autonomous vehicles being allowed to run in New York City or New York State in the coming years. We say: Not in New York. Not at the expense of our safety, jobs, and communities.

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New York, NY

To: Governor Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams, New York City Council, NYC DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, and the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles
From: [Your Name]

We, the undersigned, call for an immediate halt to Waymo’s autonomous vehicle testing on the streets of New York City.

Our city is one of the most complex and densely populated urban environments in the world. With unpredictable traffic patterns, constant pedestrian activity, cyclists, delivery workers, children, seniors, and people with disabilities navigating the streets every day, New York is no place for experimental self-driving cars.

Waymo’s track record in other cities has already raised serious safety and accountability concerns. From abrupt stops and traffic disruptions to documented cases of autonomous vehicles endangering emergency responders and blocking intersections, we cannot afford to allow these experiments to risk lives in our communities.

We demand:

1. A full ban on autonomous vehicle testing on New York City streets. Our streets are not test labs for billion-dollar tech corporations.

2. A ban on autonomous vehicles from being allowed to do business in New York State. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers make their living as professional for-hire vehicle and delivery drivers. These workers are essential to New York State and should have the ability to work and keep their jobs. We refuse to create a pathway for companies to take away their income and hurt our communities.

Instead of fast-tracking a rollout that puts corporate interests ahead of public safety, we urge our city and state leaders to prioritize investments in public transit, infrastructure, and worker protections, not driverless cars.

New York City should lead with safety, transparency, and accountability, not reckless tech experimentation.

Please listen to your constituents and protect our streets, our families, and our future.

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