Self-Driving Car Company to Test a Second Autonomous Vehicle in NYC

A tech firm that has been quietly testing a single self-driving car on the streets of New York City — which prompted the Department of Transportation to initiate a process to further regulate the testing of such driverless vehicles — is about to deploy a second “look-ma-no-hands” car in Gotham this month, with plans for five more by the end of the year, Streetsblog has learned.

Mobileye — a division of Intel — has been quietly operating one camera-covered AV car in the city since June, but this month, after the DOT moved to require a specific city-issued permit for such testing, the company revealed through a spokeswoman that it will double that fleet in September. (Prior press accounts inaccurately said that the company was testing two AV cars already.)