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A Toyota Prius modified to operate as a Google driverless car, navigating a test course [97] (2011) In 2009, Google began testing its self-driving cars in the San Francisco Bay Area. [98] By December 2013, Nevada, Florida, California, and Michigan had passed laws permitting autonomous cars. [99] A law proposed in Texas allowed testing. [100] [101]
A U.S. Department of Transportation-sponsored study found that autonomous trucking will increase U.S. employment by up to 35,000 jobs per year over the next three decades. Currently, AV companies ...
[71] [72] [73] This legislation was supported by Google in an effort to legally conduct further testing of its Google driverless car. [74] The Nevada law defines an automated vehicle to be "a motor vehicle that uses artificial intelligence , sensors and global positioning system coordinates to drive itself without the active intervention of a ...
Nuro, Inc. is an American robotics company based in Mountain View, California. Founded by Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson, [2] Nuro develops autonomous delivery vehicles and is the first company to receive an autonomous exemption from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. [3]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill to require human drivers on board self-driving trucks, a measure that union leaders and truck drivers said would save hundreds of thousands of jobs ...
The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association on the other hand welcomed the draft order, saying it is "an important step for the future of roadway safety and supply chain resiliency in California."
February 2023 - Zoox, the self-driving startup owned by Amazon, carried passengers in its robotaxi for the first time in Foster City, California. [63] August 2023 - Waymo and Cruise were authorized by the CPUC to collect fares for driverless rides in San Francisco. December 2023, China finalized regulations on commercial robotaxi operation.
The so-called Autonomous Vehicle Deployment permit will allow Nuro to operate commercial services — meaning it can charge for delivery — in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.