His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. If granted, it would be the first permit allowed under the city’s new process for regulating autonomous test vehicles. New York City also has some of the most dangerous, congested, and poorly managed streets in the world. “It would behoove New York City to wait to see some of those other results of driverless technology in less dense urban settings. This is an example of something where New York City does not have to be first.”While other states have become hotbeds for AV testing, New York has been a bit of a ghost town.