Data on self-driving technology filed with the state of California also showed GM's Cruise unit more than doubled how far its cars can go before a safety driver needs to take over.
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Nuro’s exemption to deploy 5,000 of its R2 electric delivery vehicles expires next year.
Only three weeks ago, U.S. federal safety regulators issued a new rule that ostensibly paved the way for certain autonomous vehicles to reach U.S. roads in widespread fashion. Now that rule sits in limbo.
Six days before President Joe Biden s inauguration, NHTSA officials finalized a rule that, among other things, exempts self-driving vehicles designed to never carry human occupants from crashworthiness standards.
It seemed like a big development for companies focused on delivery-only autonomous applications, such as Nuro, which have gained traction as consumer demand for delivery services increased during the pandemic.
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has issued an Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit (with a driver) to VinFast (a division of Vingroup). VinFast a Vietnamese company (earlier post) is the 57th company to be issued such a testing permit. Six companies have received a permit for driverless testing (Autox, Baidu, Cruise,.