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...According to the DMV’s order, Cruise representatives did not reveal the pullover manoeuvre when meeting the DMV and California Highway Patrol the next day....
...In addition to the DoJ and SEC investigations, the incident prompted probes by the California DMV, the California Public Utilities Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration....
...In a blog post, Cruise confirmed the details of the incident but said it had “proactively” shared information with the California DMV and other authorities and stayed in close contact with them....
...The DMV in October accused Cruise of misrepresenting details about the accident, in which a female pedestrian was thrown by another vehicle into the path of one of Cruise’s self-driving cars and then dragged...
...The Californian DMV “disengagement” report has emerged as an unofficial metric for investors to compare the various companies’ technology....
...Documents obtained from the California DMV by the Financial Times earlier this month revealed that many of the largest Silicon Valley companies operating in the field provided only a few days’ training for...
...The Uber crash has triggered investigations from several government agencies, including California’s DMV, and prompted criticism of the company’s approach....
...The California DMV said it had received one other application for a fully driverless testing permit, which had been returned to the applicant because it was incomplete....
...The latest annual data from the California Department of Motor Vehicles, or DMV, shows Waymo clearly in the lead, with 63 engagements over 350,000 miles driven, or 0.18 per 1,000 miles....
...But Prof Cummings is concerned that the California DMV was not offering sufficient protection for other road users — for instance by requiring that driverless vehicles be clearly marked so that human drivers...
...“This is a major step forward for autonomous technology in California,” said Jean Shiomoto, director of the California DMV....
...A spokeswoman for the DMV said Uber has not re-applied....
...It has almost doubled since then to 45 vehicles, according to DMV figures provided to the Financial Times....
...A DMV spokesperson said that Samsung’s permit, which was granted to its semiconductor division, covers three vehicles: a Toyota Prius and two Audi A3s....
...Last month, the California DMV said it would ease some restrictions on testing self-driving vehicles, potentially paving the way for robot cars to come into public use as early as next year....
...A DMV spokesperson said that Apple has been licensed to test three vehicles, all of which are a 2015 Lexus RX450h, with six drivers....
...arguing that it did not need a testing permit, has rapidly increased its testing fleet to 24 cars, the same number as Tesla and just behind GM Cruise’s 38 vehicles, according to figures provided by the DMV...
...DMV’s permitting process this week....
...The DMV also dropped a proposal for autonomous cars to be tested for at least a year on public roads before they can be sold to consumers or used in taxi and car-booking services such as Uber....
...In a letter to Uber, Jean Shiomoto, director of the California DMV, said: “I appreciate the action that Uber has taken in the interest of public safety.”...
...Yet within hours of the tricked-out Volvos starting to pick up passengers, the California DMV told Uber, which at $68bn is Silicon Valley’s most valuable private company, that its pilot was illegal and threatened...
...“We have stopped our self-driving pilot in California as the DMV has revoked the registrations for our self-driving cars,” Uber said on Wednesday evening....
...He said the California DMV had not taken any steps to require Uber to get a permit....
...The DMV did not elaborate on what its legal options might entail. Uber did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the DMV’s letter or whether it would comply....
...Uber did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the DMV’s letter....
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