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Zoox receives California permit for driverless public-road testing

California granted Zoox a permit to test autonomous vehicles without a human safety driver on public roads in a limited part of Foster City, making it the fourth company to receive that level of driverless testing authorization in the state.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM25confidence 88/100

Why it moved the index

The permit enabled real public-road operation without an onboard safety driver, moving consequential autonomy beyond closed-course demonstrations. The authorization covered a limited geography and testing program rather than commercial deployment.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 25 · confidence 88

    New source-verified September 2020 driverless deployment authorization absent from the durable corpus.

    11 Aug 2026

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