For now, the tests are limited to employees at Zoox's Foster City, California, headquarters.
Unlike Cruise, Zoox says its driverless vehicles — which do not have any steering wheel or other manual controls — meet Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, and so the company is not seeking any waiver to put them into use on public roads.
All companies testing their vehicles on public roads in the state of California are required to report all the times their system disengages, or whenever a human driver has to take over for the autonomous system while driving, usually due to things like safety concerns or software issues. Zoox told reporters it does not have to report disengagements to the state since there are no manual controls on the vehicle.
"If the vehicle is in a situation where it needs help because either it needs to do something it's not normally allowed to do, or because it doesn't know how to handle a situation, we have what's called a 'fusion center,' with trained guidance operators monitoring the output of the scene and then will give guidance to the vehicle and either give it permission to do something — but the vehicle is still in charge and does all the driving — or drop breadcrumbs on...
Zoox doesn't refer to these incidents as disengagements, but rather cases where the vehicle needs support or guidance, she added.
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