after being evicted from San Francisco, said
Johana Bhuiyan in Recode.net. The ridehailing
company pulled its fleet of 16 semiautonomous
vehicles from San Francisco last
month after the state of California yanked the
vehicles’ registrations for not having the necessary
permits. The state’s Department of Motor
Vehicles said Uber didn’t properly identify the
cars as “test vehicles,” but Uber argued that
it didn’t need to apply for such a permit since
the cars “still needed a human to maintain
some degree of control and were thus not fully
autonomous.” In Arizona, the company will
join Ford and Waymo, which are also testing
vehicles in the state. Arizona’s Republican governor,
Doug Ducey, has sought to position the
state as a haven for self-driving technology.