Kasturi acknowledged that the company is still awaiting “regulatory approval”, which will indicate that Tesla’s top company Tesla will face indications. (Get? Top? San Francisco?)
But the permit does not give Tesla the option of offering rides to the common people or running a full ride. To operate a commercial robotics service in California, any company will need to obtain three permits from California’s DMV: testing with a safety driver, fully driverless testing, and deployment of autonomous vehicles. Right now, Tesla has only one of these permits: testing with the safety driver.
But the permit does not give Tesla the option of offering rides to the common people or running a full ride.
If Tesla wants her service to be similar to what she launched in Austin -driver Les last month, but with a safety monitor in the driver seat. Paid rides, but only invite – it will also need to get these extra DMV permits. It will also need to apply for the CPUC’s independent vehicle passenger program, which is still pending. There are a lot of hips to jump, and in contrast to Texas, where they all had evidence of insurance.
California regulators will have many questions for Tesla, including a description of some of its high -level errors in Austin. They want to know what their remote operators play in the operation of each vehicle. They can ask about “phantom breaking”. And they will probably ask this photo about the steering wheel. –
If anything goes wrong, California can come to Tesla’s robotics permit names. This happened to the Cruz when the company’s employees failed to disclose an incident in which a vehicle of a woman was drunk after several feet when she was hit in a hit and run.
Talking about discrimination, self -powered cars in California require an annual data to be presented to the state’s DMV, which contains the number of running fairs and frequency in which human safety drivers were forced to take control of their independent vehicles. The last time Tesla submitted the Discovery Report was 2019, when it reported only 12.2 miles of autonomy as part of the demo around the Palo Alto headquarters at that time. Since then, Tesla has not submitted any report, and has argued that its test level is focused on driving 2.
But there are signs that Tesla is increasing its efforts in California. Earlier this year, Business Internal It is reported that Tesla registered more than 220 test drivers and 100 vehicles for an independent driving permit in the state. This is an increase in 59 drivers and 14 vehicles that it registered in the previous application from 2022.


