Jaffe: D.C. squeezing cars out -- with or without drivers

Hours before his city council committee met Tuesday to hear testimony on the Autonomous Vehicle Act of 2012, Councilman Jack Evans said it “sounds a little like ‘The Jetsons’ ” and added that his colleague Mary Cheh’s legislation to permit driverless cars is “very far off in the future.”

Not so in California, where Gov. Jerry Brown lived up to his moniker “Governor Moonbeam” by signing legislation last month to allow robotic cars to operate on state roads. Florida and Nevada have already passed such laws.