California Code of Regulations
Title 13 - Motor Vehicles
Division 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Chapter 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Article 3.7 - Testing of Autonomous Vehicles
Section 227.18 - Manufacturer's Testing Permit and Manufacturer's Testing Permit Driverless Vehicles
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) A manufacturer shall not conduct testing of an autonomous vehicle on public roads in California without having applied to the department for a permit to conduct testing, the department having issued an Autonomous Vehicle Testing (AVT) Manufacturer's Testing Permit or a Manufacturer's Testing Permit -- Driverless Vehicles to conduct testing, and the permit being currently in full force and effect.
(b) A manufacturer shall not test autonomous vehicles on public roads unless the manufacturer has tested the autonomous vehicles under controlled conditions that simulate, as closely as practicable, each Operational Design Domain in which the manufacturer intends the vehicles to operate on public roads and the manufacturer has reasonably determined that it is safe to operate the vehicles in each Operational Design Domain.
1. New
section filed 5-19-2014; operative 9-16-2014 pursuant to Vehicle Code section
38750(f)
(Register 2014, No. 21).
2. Renumbering of former section 227.18 to
section 227.32 and renumbering of former
section 227.24 to section 227.18,
including amendment of section heading and section, filed 2-26-2018; operative
4-1-2018 (Register 2018, No. 9).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 1651 and 38750, Vehicle Code. Reference: Section 38750, Vehicle Code.
