The California Teamsters union is suing multiple state agencies and their leaders to rescind new regulations allowing self-driving trucks on state roads. In the Wednesday lawsuit, the Teamsters allege that the California Department of Motor Vehicles circumvented required studies and publication on the economic impacts of allowing large self-driving trucks on state roads. The Teamsters also claim that the DMV ignored safety risks that self-driving trucks pose to drivers, given that the trucks are still being tested and have not been fully evaluated. Self-driving vehicle company Waymo claims that their cars are more than 10 times safer than cars driven by an average human driver. The union is asking the court to prevent the DMV from enforcing the new rules and to declare they were implemented in error. California, origin of Silicon Valley self-driving vehicle companies such as Waymo and Tesla, was previously the only state to prohibit large self-driving vehicles. In April, though, the DMV adopted new rules allowing autonomous vehicles weighing 10,001 pounds or more to apply to drive on public state roads. According to Teamsters California Co-Chair Peter Finn, the Teamsters filed the lawsuit in the Alameda County Superior Court because the Port of Oakland is a crucial point of interest for self-driving truck companies. “These amended AV regulations will, in effect, result in the testing and deployment of these self-driving trucks that pose an existential threat to hundreds of thousands of people who rely on good driving jobs throughout the state of California,” said Julie Gutman Dickinson, a Bush Gottlieb attorney representing the Teamsters. “These are the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of truck drivers in California who have built a life around good middle class jobs.” The complaint alleges the DMV used a process meant for minor regulatory changes with less than $50 million in