[lojack]

That seems like click bait to me. I believe they require a permit for a fully autonomous vehicle, but since there's a driver in the car monitoring the systems with the ability to override, it isn't considered fully autonomous. This is neither sketchy, surprising, or even skirting the rules. The fact that it's picking up passengers seems mostly like a PR move to me as the income generated by them probably pales in comparison to the cost of the car plus the overhead of a (not typical) driver plus engineer.