[kroo]

Here's the proposed text, for anyone who's interested: http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_129...

Edit: As I read it, this is pretty straight forward, doing the following things:

- Makes it explicitly legal to operate an autonomous car on public roads, if your car has met a safety standard yet to be devised.

- Authorizes the establishment of safety standards for autonomous vehicles by the California Highway Patrol.

- Until these standards are devised, it does not prohibit autonomous cars from operating on CA public roads.

"Autonomous Cars" in this case are defined fairly narrowly: a car capable of driving "without active control and continuous monitoring of a human operator".