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Uber has suspended its nascent self-driving vehicle program in California after the state's regulators revoked the company&039;s car registrations.
The ride hailing company said the move came Wednesday after California&039;s Department of Motor Vehicles “revoked the registrations for our self-driving cars.”
“We’re now looking at where we can redeploy these cars but remain 100 percent committed to California and will be redoubling our efforts to develop workable statewide rules,” the statement added.
A statement from the DMV said that the agency revoked registrations for 16 vehicles that “were improperly issued for these vehicles because they were not properly marked as test vehicles.”
California adopted testing regulations for self-driving vehicles two years ago, and the DMV&039;s statement added that “Uber is welcome to test its autonomous technology in California like everybody else, through the issuance of a testing permit that can take less than 72 hours to issue after a completed application is submitted.”
Earlier this month, the company began testing self-driving vehicles in San Francisco. The same day the program launched, the California DMV ordered the company to stop the program until it obtained a permit from the agency. The DMV also threatened Uber with legal action if it didn&039;t pull the vehicles.
One of Uber&039;s self-driving vehicles was also caught running a red light on the first day of the program.
The company is also testing autonomous vehicles — which still have a human driver onboard — in Pittsburgh.
Other companies, including Tesla and Google, have already obtained DMV permits to test self-driving vehicles in California.
LINK: DMV Threatens Legal Action After Uber Rolls Out Self-Driving Cars In SF
LINK: Here’s A Video Of A Self-Driving Uber Running A Red Light
Quelle: <a href="Uber Halts Self-Driving Car Program In California After Registrations Revoked“>BuzzFeed
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