Uber is ignoring California rules on self-driving cars, and the government is pissed

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Uber, the quintessential disrupter, has standard method of crashing into a new market: set up shop with low prices and zero permits for drivers; get the locals hooked on cheap cab rides; strong-arm the local government into legalizing ridesharing, and then slowly raise prices to make profit and pay for the taxes it starts paying.

It's a classic innovate first, ask permission later policy, and it's worked in Montreal, Paris, New York, and basically anywhere else Uber has expanded. So it makes perfect sense that when it launched its self-driving car pilot program in San Francisco, Uber didn't bother checking with the DMV first.

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