Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday that the city has granted Waymo a permit to start testing a small fleet of autonomous vehicles on the streets of New York. The pilot program will be limited to some of Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn and will put eight approved autonomous vehicles (AVs) into action for testing.

Waymo will be permitted to test autonomous vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn until late September, the city says.

The self-driving car company received a permit to begin testing a limited number of autonomous vehicles in parts of Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn.

Five people are dead after a tour bus with more than 50 passengers lost control and rolled over on a major highway in western New York on Friday, state police said. The bus was traveling back to New York City from Niagara Falls,

At least five people died when a chartered tour bus crashed and rolled in upstate New York while returning from Niagara Falls on Friday. The bus was carrying 54 people, including the driver, when the single-vehicle wreck occurred in Pembroke,