Autonomous driving startup WeRide obtained a allow to check two passenger autos on California’s public roads with no security driver within the entrance, California’s Division of Motor Automobiles said on Monday.

WeRide, backed by Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi, can also be testing its driverless car in China’s southern city of Guangzhou, the place the corporate has its international headquarters.

Automakers and expertise companies are investing billions in autonomous driving, aiming to take an early lead in what many think about the way forward for mobility.

Different corporations which might be allowed to check autonomous autos with no security driving within the entrance in California, embody Alphabet’s Waymo, Common Motors’ majority-owned Cruise, and two Chinese language corporations, Baidu and Alibaba-backed AutoX.