{"id":216552,"date":"2025-06-25T02:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/confirmed-texas-imposes-new-rules-on-autonomous-vehicles-and-will-require-official-permits-before-they-can-be-driven-on-its-roads"},"modified":"2025-06-25T02:06:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:06:30","slug":"confirmed-texas-imposes-new-rules-on-autonomous-vehicles-and-will-require-official-permits-before-they-can-be-driven-on-its-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/confirmed-texas-imposes-new-rules-on-autonomous-vehicles-and-will-require-official-permits-before-they-can-be-driven-on-its-roads","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed \u2014 Texas imposes new rules on autonomous vehicles and will require official permits before they can be driven on its roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/confirmed-texas-imposes-new-rules-on-autonomous-vehicles-and-will-require-official-permits-before-they-can-be-driven-on-its-roads.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A blue-and-white <em>Waymo<\/em> van rolls up to a stoplight near Austin\u2019s South Congress Avenue, sensors spinning in the sun. In three months, that van \u2013and every other driverless car in Texas\u2013 will need a brand-new permission slip taped to its dash. Governor Greg Abbott has signed <strong>SB 2807<\/strong>, a bill that for the first time gives the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles gate-keeper power <a href=\"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/news\/elon-musk-cybercab-deadline\/\">over autonomous vehicles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Starting <strong>September 1, 2025<\/strong>, any company that wants to run a truly driver-free car\u2014robo-taxi, delivery pod, or freight hauler\u2014must first snag a <strong>state-issued permit<\/strong>. To qualify, operators have to file a safety and compliance plan that spells out:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blue-and-white Waymo van rolls up to a stoplight near Austin\u2019s South Congress Avenue, sensors spinning in the sun. In three months, that van \u2013and every other driverless car in Texas\u2013 will need a brand-new permission slip taped to its dash. Governor Greg Abbott has signed SB 2807, a bill that for the first time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}