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The California motor vehicle authority (DMV) announced that it will allow more types of vehicles to be tested on open roads in the state, including light truck types, i.e. small and medium trucks or vans. According to the latest regulations, light driverless vehicles loaded with pizza or groceries can be tested on California public roads, provided that they are licensed from the DMV of California, and the test vehicles need to be equipped with safe drivers, or meet a series of technical and reporting standards. Specific requirements include that if there is no safe driver, the test vehicle must be embedded with a link to the remote operator. In addition, test companies must agree to share data with state governments. For example, if any accident occurs to the test vehicle, the enterprise needs to submit the collision report within 10 days. In addition, enterprises need to submit annual "disengaging report". At present, no company has obtained permission to charge for the delivery service of test vehicles. However, it is understood that nuro, who has obtained Softbank investment, has applied for this service. GM has also teamed up with food distribution platform doordash, but it did not comment. "We are currently testing autonomous vehicles in California, but we have not yet applied for the light truck autonomous driving test," a spokesman said A spokesman for Uber eats also said the company had no intention of applying for such permission at present. So far, 65 companies have tested autonomous vehicles on California's open roads, including Aurora, General Motors' cruise and apple. However, only one company, waymo, was allowed to conduct a full driverless test on California's open roads.