Every week, it seems, Waymos pop up in another U.S. city. And as these Alphabet-backed robotaxis spread, so do the fights over them, at just about every level of government. Last week, Washington D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen introduced a bill to operationalize self-driving taxis there after the council seemed poised to stall a prospective rollout earlier this month. In New York City, when Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently let a permit allowing Waymo testing expire, Governor Kathy Hochul