A self-driving Nuro vehicle outside a Fry's supermarket, which is owned by Kroger, as part of a pilot programme for grocery deliveries in Scottsdale, Arizona. In the future deliveries will be made by a completely autonomous vehicle, called an R1, with no human aboard. — AP
When I first met Silicon Valley lawyer David Estrada in 2014, he was an executive at Lyft Inc who was tussling with New York City regulators. Lyft wanted to allow its drivers to ferry passengers around the city without special licenses. He lost that battle but won the war, helping to persuade dozens of states and countries to change their laws and usher in the age of ride-hailing.
It turns out that Estrada’s two years at Lyft were just one part of a 15-year slalom through some of Silicon Valley’s most disruptive companies. He had previously worked at Google X, crafting the first autonomous vehicle legislation in states like California, Florida and Nevada. After Lyft, he moved to Kitty Hawk, Larry Page’s secretive flying car company, and then became the head of legal and policy at Bird Rides Inc, nudging more than 100 US cities and several countries to accept (though not necessarily embrace) street-side electric scooter rentals.
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