A street safety advocacy group on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of New Yorkers calling for regulators to revoke approval for a pilot program that allows a car service to test self-driving taxis on city streets.

Waymo, a taxi app company owned by Google’s parent-company Alphabet, last week got the green light from the city transportation department to operate eight autonomous vehicles in the city through September. The company already operates robot taxis in cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix and Austin, where riders can order driverless cabs with their smartphones.

But organizers at the advocacy group Open Plans said New York isn’t comparable to those cities, and raised concerns the pilot program sets the stage for self-driving vehicles to one day gum up the city’s

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