An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Hours after announcing that it acquired self-driving truck startup Ike, Nuro revealed it’s the first company to receive permission from the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to charge a fee and receive compensation for its driverless delivery service. Unlike the autonomous testing licenses the California DMV previously granted to Nuro and others,…
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Uber Resumes Autonomous Car Testing in San Francisco
Just over a month after Uber received a California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) license to test driverless cars on public roads, the company has resumed autonomous testing in San Francisco. From a report: Uber says it will limit its time on the road to a “few weeks” while it completes a codebase and infrastructure update and that two of its…
California Gives a Green Light To Companies Testing Driverless Delivery Vehicles
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: California has said it will now allow companies to test light-duty autonomous delivery vehicles on the state’s public roads. The State of California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) announced the new regulations last week, which allows companies with a permit to operate autonomous delivery vehicles that weigh up to 10,001 pounds (4.54 tons)….
The California DMV Is Making $50 Million a Year Selling Drivers’ Personal Info
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The California Department of Motor Vehicles is generating revenue of $50,000,000 a year through selling drivers’ personal information, according to a DMV document obtained by Motherboard. DMVs across the country are selling data that drivers are required to provide to the organization in order to obtain a license. This information includes names, physical…
DoNotPay App Waits On Hold For You
DoNotPay, a free chatbot that offers AI-powered legal counsel, is launching a new feature that will call you when it’s your turn in a customer service phone queue. TechCrunch reports: The app today is launching “Skip Waiting On Hold.” Just type in the company you need to talk to, and DoNotPay calls for you using tricks to get a human on…
Getting Cool Vanity License Plate ‘NULL’ Is Not Really a Cool Idea, Infosec Researcher Discovers
Choosing NULL as your license plate might seem like a funny idea. But as an infosec researcher discovered recently, the cool-looking NULL vanity plate comes with its own consequences. Researcher Droogie, that’s his handle, who presented at this year’s DEF CON in Las Vegas, said he has been on the receiving end of thousands of dollars worth of tickets that aren’t…
Florida’s DMV Made $77 Million — By Selling Off Personal Information
Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles “made $77 million in 2017 by selling drivers’ personal information to more than 30 private companies, including marketing firms, bill collectors, insurance companies and data brokers…” according to local news site. schwit1 shared this report from WPTV:
A Florida woman is blaming the state government for an onslaught of robocalls and direct mail offers…
America’s FBI Is Running Facial Recognition Searches On Millions of Driver’s License Photos
America’s FBI and its Customs Enforcement agency “have turned state driver license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through hundreds of millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent,” reports the Washington Post. They cite thousands of newly-released facial-recognition requests, internal documents, and emails from the last five years, revealed after a public-records request from researchers at Georgetown University,…
Waymo Can Now Shuttle Passengers In Its Self-Driving Cars In California
Waymo has received a new permit from the California Public Utilities Commission to shuttle passengers in its self-driving cars. Before this, Waymo was not allowed to transport passengers. CNET reports: In order to be eligible for this permit, the company in question must already have an AV testing permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles, which Waymo has had since…
Cop Awarded $585K After ‘Dozens’ Of Police Officers Accessed Their DMV Data 500 Times
Slashdot reader Iwastheone shares a story from Ars Technica about what happened after Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources sent a privacy notification to a police officer in 2013: An employee had abused his access to a government driver’s license database and snooped on thousands of people in the state, mostly women. Krekelberg learned that she was one of them. When Krekelberg…