Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

California now allows testing of self-driving semi-trucks, with two companies holding the first permits.

The California DMV has issued the first permits that allow companies to test heavy autonomous vehicles on the road.

Most Californians will never have to drive on the freeway during a DMV test, but there’s one factor that greatly increases the chances: failing the vision test. The process that starts when a license ...