(Bloomberg) — Fully autonomous vehicles aren't ready for prime time, as far as California's Department of Motor Vehicles is concerned.

The agency published draft regulations on Wednesday for how manufacturers can move from testing self-driving car technologies to start making vehicles available to customers.

California, as the state with the most cars on the road, often ends up setting many of the standards for the auto industry. Silicon Valley is where much of the research into autonomous vehicles is taking place, while many automakers have their design shops in the Los Angeles area. For now the DMV isn't allowing automated cars that don't have a human driver, even though Google Inc. is building one that's designed to work without a person behind the wheel.

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