By July, California will close legal loopholes that made driverless cars like Waymos exempt from some laws. California's Department of Motor Vehicles is enacting new regulations that mean cars without drivers, such as Tesla Robotaxis and Waymo rideshare cars, will be subject to police ticketing -- even though there's no driver in the car to accept it. The change is part of a rollout of 2024 legislation on autonomous vehicles and part of a set of new requirements approved on April 28 by the state's DMV. The ticketing would be a "notice of AV (autonomous vehicle) noncompliance" issued to the manufacturer of an autonomous vehicle.  Other requirements involve testing self-driving cars before they hit the road: 50,000 miles of testing in each phase of development for light-duty vehicles and 500,000 miles for heavy-duty vehicles like semi trucks. The rules include more control over self-driving cars during emergencies.…