San Francisco: Chinese language autonomous car startup, Pony.ai has obtained a allow from California’s Division of Motor Automobiles (DMV) to check its driverless automobiles with out human security drivers behind the wheel on specified streets in three cities.
Pony has been authorised to check autonomous autos with security drivers in California since 2017, however the brand new allow will let it check six autonomous autos with out security drivers on particular streets in Fremont, Alameda County; Milpitas, Santa Clara County; and Irvine, Orange County, The Verge reported on Saturday.
Based on the DMV, the autos are designed to be pushed on roads with velocity limits of 45 miles per hour or much less, in clear climate and lightweight precipitation.
A complete of 55 firms have lively permits to check driverless autos in California in keeping with the DMV, however Pony is simply the eighth firm to obtain a driverless testing allow, becoming a member of fellow Chinese language firms AutoX, Baidu, and WeRide, together with US firms Cruise, Nuro, Waymo, and Zoox.
Nuro is the one firm up to now to obtain a deployment allow that permits it to function its autonomous autos in California commercially, the report stated.
