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It didn’t take long for Uber to run into trouble while testing its self-driving vehicle service. But it wasn’t the vehicles themselves that gave Uber any problems — this time, it was the state of California.
Just hours after the company unleashed its fleet of autonomous Volvos in San Francisco, the California DMV ordered Uber to “cease the operations” of those vehicles. Turns out, California requires companies testing autonomous vehicles on public roads to have a specific permit — one that Uber hasn’t submitted.
However, the ride sharing company doesn’t believe that it needs a permit, since every vehicle has a driver in the front seat with their hands on the wheel. Currently, Uber operates a similar program in Pittsburgh with this practice. But California seems to have a different process in mind.