California grants Cruise the first driverless passenger-service pilot permit
California authorized Cruise to carry members of the public in test autonomous vehicles with no safety driver in the vehicle, making it the first participant in the state's driverless passenger-service pilot.
TOWARD DOOM40confidence 95/100
Why it moved the index
The permit moved unsupervised physical autonomy into public passenger trials under state authorization. Free rides, a limited pilot, quarterly reporting, and passenger-safety requirements constrain the signal. CPUC primary evidence and exact-time reporting directly verify the completed permit.
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- R1Toward 40 · confidence 95
New June 2021 consequential-autonomy permit absent from the durable corpus.
12 Aug 2026