“And then two days later, Uber announced that it was launching service in San Francisco with automated self-driving vehicle.”

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee joined in the calls from the state for Uber to stop operating the self-driving vehicles in the city without a permit last week. Still, the company promotes the cars as “self-driving.”

The ride-hailing company and state regulators negotiated for a week, but Uber pulled its cars off California roads Wednesday after state officials announced they would revoke the vehicle registrations of all 16 self-driving cars. “We’ll be expanding our self-driving pilot there in the next few weeks.”

San Francisco was to be Uber’s second testing ground for its self-driving cars after Pittsburgh, but the company immediately faced a backlash from the DMV, which requires a permit to test autonomous vehicles on public roads. Uber said on Wednesday it was looking for other places to test out the cars but remained 100 percent committed to California and would redouble its efforts “to develop workable statewide rules.”

Ducey called California's rules “over-regulation.” It's unclear which if any regulations exist in Arizona that would apply to the testing of self-driving cars.
Uber suspends tests of its self-driving cars in San Francisco, California, after the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the registration of the vehicles in the state in response to two red-light violations.