Actually, I see this as a good news based on the following statements. It seems like these officials see that the deployment of AVs is going to happen very fast. What's not to like about it?

Supervisor Matt Dorsey raised another issue that he said the board will have to face head-on in the years ahead: displacement of human workers by self-driving technology.

“I’m convinced that this is something we’re going to be talking a lot about over the next decade, and I think it’s going to happen fast\,” Dorsey said. “Unlike seismic shifts in transportation in years past, driverless cars will displace a massive segment of our economy.”\