From the press release: "The DMV has provided Cruise with the steps needed to apply to reinstate its suspended permits, which the DMV will not approve until the company has fulfilled the requirements to the department’s satisfaction."
I'd be very curious to see the terms of reinstatement; we've all seen the viral clickbait taxis stopping traffic in SF, but I have no idea of the actual stats as to safety.
San Francisco's city/county transportation agencies, police, and fire departments have requested that additional information be tracked about crashes involving autonomous vehicles. But my understanding is that CA DMV and CPUC have denied those requests. There are currently some academic researchers filling this void with their own recordkeeping and analysis. Each time academics circulate a pre-print for peer review, Cruise appears to issue a press release based on its own internal statistics and its CEO goes on the offensive.
So, to a certain degree, it's unsteady and loose regular by CA DMV and CPUC that have led to the former needing to suspend Cruise's permit today (rather than a much more gradual and controlled process of granting industry more leeway to test without safety drivers on public right-of-way).
I'd be very curious to see the terms of reinstatement; we've all seen the viral clickbait taxis stopping traffic in SF, but I have no idea of the actual stats as to safety.