San Francisco emerges as the go-to place for robotaxi operations

California's Department of Motor Vehicles has approved three companies to commercially deploy autonomous vehicles in the state. Two of them — Cruise and Waymo — work on robotaxis (the other is Nuro, working on last-mile delivery), which are likely the first commercial applications of passenger auton...

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