California permits Pony.ai driverless testing in three cities
California authorized Pony.ai to test six autonomous vehicles without a human safety driver on specified streets in Fremont, Milpitas, and Irvine, subject to speed, weather, remote-operator, insurance, and reporting constraints.
TOWARD DOOM38confidence 94/100
Why it moved the index
The permit moved consequential physical autonomy into public-road testing without an onboard safety driver. The six-vehicle limit, geofencing, operating constraints, and remote oversight limit magnitude; regulator-backed details support high confidence.
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- R1Toward 38 · confidence 94
New May 2021 driverless-deployment authorization absent from the durable corpus.
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