This seems to have to do with federal law which underlies NHTSA&#x27;s regulation on required safety equipment, not laws regarding licensing, etc. Without something like this, regardless of state laws on autonomous vehicles, all US street-legal vehicles, even if fully autonomous, and even if the state had no requirements for human control as an option or backup, would have to be equipped for human control.<p>Who state law governing things like driver responsibility would treat as the driver of a fully autonomous vehicle -- and whether they would allow such a thing at all -- is a separate issue.