this isn't going to the ice cream store, this is driving two tons of steel with experimental software that glitches constantly through inner city traffic. If you look at the footage, at times these cars behave as erratically as a drunk driver, and they're controlled by what appears to be random 'beta testers' with no qualifications to operate a car under those conditions.

It would be a glorious honor to have my 'FSD' Tesla drive into a giant concrete pillar, causing my car to explode and erupt into flames.

Basically Silicon Valley's version of a Viking burial

Such crude trolling. Build a new house without a permit and see how that freedom feels.

Yes, you have to get a driver's license and also register your car. If that isn't asking for permission then I don't know. Although it's a stretch to assume this permission includes self driving cars.