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Otto's California Truck Testing May Depend on Whether Drivers Keep a Foot on the Accelerator or Not When Otto first began testing its technology in California last year, a co-founder of the company sought to assure regulators it was developing driver-assistance systems on the state's public roads and not self-driving semi trucks. Otto, which hopes to develop fully self-driving trucks, would not be required to obtain an autonomous-testing permit from the state if it was only testing driver-assistance features. But it would be Read More ... Places: Americas North America United States West Pacific California Why is Ford investing $1 billion over five years in a Pittsburgh startup called Argo AI? It's looking to gain an edge in self-driving car technology in the four-year countdown to 2021. That's when Ford has said it will be shipping cars with autonomous driving. Several other automakers said in 2016 they'd have self-driving cars within five years, too.