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California grants Cruise first paid driverless passenger permit

California authorized Cruise to charge passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco, issuing the state's first driverless autonomous-vehicle passenger-service deployment permit.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM54confidence 97/100

Why it moved the index

The permit converted Cruise's driverless testing into authorized paid passenger service, materially advancing commercial physical autonomy. Operating hours, geography, speed, weather, and fleet size remained restricted, and later paid rides are consolidated into this same event.

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  1. R1
    Toward 54 · confidence 97

    New June 2022 commercial driverless deployment milestone absent from the durable corpus.

    12 Aug 2026
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