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(photo source: autox official website) according to foreign media reports, autox, a Chinese start-up invested by Alibaba, has applied for a test license in California. It is worth mentioning that this license allows enterprises to deploy vehicles without safety officers on the road. If the license is successfully obtained, autox will be able to test the driverless vehicle on the road, and the vehicle does not need to be equipped with a safety officer, but is remotely monitored by a human operator. This will take the company a step forward in California's competition to deploy the first commercial driverless delivery trucks or driverless taxis. Its company waymo is currently the only company that has obtained the qualification of all driverless vehicle test. At present, more than 60 enterprises are conducting automatic driving test in California, but these vehicles need to be equipped with backup safety officers. Autox, which is much smaller than waymo, is the first of these companies to look for an all human test. Autox's investors include Alibaba, a company founded in 2016 by former Princeton Professor Xiao Jianxiong, an expert in 3D learning, computer vision and robotics. Headquartered in Hong Kong, China, the company has raised a total of US $143 million so far, and has deployed 100 self driving taxis in China, and is testing in 10 cities including Shenzhen, Shanghai and San Jose, California. The company has a second base in San Jose. The timing of the company's application for a new license is delicate, as US regulators are cracking down on Chinese technology companies seeking to enter the US market. Companies in California that have been granted DMV testing licenses for self driving vehicles equipped with safety officers also include, LYFT and cruise. However, autox is one of the four enterprises that have obtained the automatic driving and passenger carrying test, and these automatic driving vehicles must be equipped with safety officers when carrying out the passenger carrying test.