Items tagged with DMV

by Brittany Goetting - Thu, Jan 19, 2017

Google Stops Publishing Monthly Waymo Self-Driving Car Accident Reports

Google has not only changed the company behind its self-driving vehicles, but its accident-reporting methods. The newly-named Waymo has removed the monthly incident and accident reports page from its website. A Waymo spokesperson stated, “We’ve replaced our PDF reports with a new blog and website that continues to... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 21, 2016

Google And Automakers In Rare Agreement To Trash California’s Proposed Self-Driving Car Rules

One thing that Google and automakers such as General Motors and Volkswagen can all agree on is that California's proposed rules on self-driving cars, while perhaps penned with good intentions, would hamper efforts to develop and test potentially life saving autonomous vehicle technologies. They could also lead to... Read more...

by Seth Colaner - Sat, Jun 07, 2014

Virginia DMV Flips Rideshare Services Lyft And Uber The Bird

Rideshare services Lyft and Uber (“hipster taxis”, a friend calls them) are facing some backlash over their business model of peer-to-peer ridesharing, particularly in the state of Virginia. The Virginia DMV has made it clear that this ridesharing paradigm is against current law. There’s a provision... Read more...

by Seth Colaner - Thu, May 22, 2014

California DMV Officially Approves Autonomous Cars On Public Roads, With Regulations

Usually, technological advances substantially outpace legislation to manage them, but give a tip ‘o the cap to the California DMV for drawing up regulations for autonomous cars before the vehicles become widespread. In two separate “packages”, the DMV has rules both for testing autonomous vehicles by... Read more...