REUTERS: Developers of self-driving cars are amping up criticism of a California reporting requirement on test data, saying the data could mislead, as the state prepares to release the latest results for 2019.
The focus on disengagements - when a human driver must take manual control from a self-driving system - and the backlash from self-driving companies have been growing since the California Department of Motor Vehicles began releasing annual disengagement reports five years ago. In 2018, the companies with the most miles between disengagements were Alphabet Inc's Waymo and Cruise. Companies with the greatest number of disengagements were Apple Inc and Uber Technologies Inc .In a February 2019 blog post, Waymo wrote that"the key to self-driving technology safely improving and scaling is through a robust breadth of experience and scenario testing, represented by a wider array of data points beyond disengagement alone.