Another company has joined the ranks of those testing autonomous vehicles on California public roads. AutoX, a San Jose company working on artificial-intelligence applications for self-driving cars, received a permit to test last month, according to records kept by the California Department of Motor Vehicles. That brings the total to 21 companies that have been authorized to test on California roads.
AutoX, incorporated in August 2016, has not yet released specific information about its product. ?Our company is still in stealth mode at the moment,? founder Jianxiong Xiao said earlier this week. He said more information will be made available in the ?near future.?
Xiao, who often goes by the name ?Professor X,? previously was an assistant professor at Princeton University, where he was the founding director of the Princeton computer vision and robotics labs. Also at Princeton, he helped develop a deep-learning system that trained self-driving systems to recognize images from Google Street View and identify road markings and features. Obtaining a permit in California requires that AutoX carry a $5 million surety bond, report any crashes that occur on public roads, and file annual reports on instances in which the technology disengages on the roadway or drivers intervene with its actions.
The other 11 companies reported their annual figures recently, including Waymo, which said its test fleet had traveled more than 600,000 miles on California public roads while operating in ...