Arizona is carefully monitoring the testing and use of self-driving automobiles within the state, its transportation division mentioned on Wednesday, a day after California barred Normal Motors’ Cruise from working its driverless vehicles.
The Arizona Division of Transportation mentioned it was conscious of the announcement from California and was carefully monitoring the scenario.
“Public security is our highest precedence, and we’re in common communication with and carefully monitoring Cruise and different corporations testing and working self-driving automobiles in Arizona,” it mentioned in an announcement.
California’s Division of Motor Autos (DMV) suspended Cruise’s autonomous automobile deployment and driverless testing allow, calling the automobiles a danger to the general public and saying the corporate had “misrepresented” the security of the know-how.
On Tuesday, the workplace of Los Angeles metropolis council member Hugo Soto-Martinez mentioned he would introduce a movement “urging officers within the state to handle public security issues round autonomous automobiles (AVs) and rein within the enlargement of robotaxis in Los Angeles.” The workplace cited each Waymo and Cruise within the assertion.
In July, the backup security driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber check automobile that struck and killed a girl in Arizona in 2018 pleaded responsible and was sentenced to probation.
Transport departments of Texas, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Florida, the Division of Motor Autos in Nevada and authorities in Dallas and Nashville didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark. Corporations reminiscent of Cruise, Alphabet’s Waymo and Uber are testing their self-driving automobile know-how in these states and cities.
