General Motors’ Cruise will start testing its autonomous vehicles without a human reinforcement before the year’s over, as per a blog post-Thursday by the subsidiary unit’s CEO Dan Ammann.

Ammann noticed that the organization was given a grant by the California Department of Motor Vehicle, giving the organization’s self-driving vehicles the greenlight to hit the roads of San Francisco.

While he recognized that Cruise isn’t the first to get such an approval, he contended that the organization will be the first to “put it to use on the streets of a major U.S. city.”

“Safely removing the driver is the true benchmark of a self-driving car, and because burning fossil fuels is no way to build the future of transportation,” Ammann added. “It will be a low key, quiet moment. But the echo could be loud.”

A Cruise representative revealed to FOX Business that while the organization trusts it has arrived at a point where its vehicles can securely work without people, there is presently no date set for beginning a public ride service. The representative noted such a move would require further government permissions.

Cruise vehichles will go neighborhood-by-neighborhood and will be launched gradually before spreading over the whole city. Likewise, the organization will hold meetings to respond to the public’s inquiries.

The DMV said in a press release that the new license permits Cruise to test five autonomous vehicles without a driver behind the wheel on determined roads within San Francisco.

“The vehicles are designed to operate on roads with posted speed limits not exceeding 30 miles per hour, during all times of the day and night, but will not test during heavy fog or heavy rain,” the agency added.

Organizations that get the driverless permits need to give proof of protection or a bond equivalent to $5 million and observe a few different rules, for example, training remote operators on the technology and meeting government Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.

The declaration comes seven days after Waymo, a subsidiary of Google parent organization Alphabet, reported it would open an independent ride-hailing service to the general population in the Phoenix zone in vehicles without human drivers.

As indicated by the DMV, Cruise is the fifth organization to get a driverless testing license in the state. Then, 60 organizations at present have an active grant to test autonomous vehicles with a safety driver.