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Cruise enhances its robotaxis for safer emergency vehicle interactions

Ryan Daws — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:12:33 +0000

Smart mobility firm Cruise is aiming to improve safety by enhancing how its robotaxis handles interactions with emergency vehicles. Cruise has amassed a wealth of data of over five million miles of driverless journeys that it uses to demonstrate the capacity of autonomous vehicles to enhance road safety when compared to conventional human driving. However,... Read more »

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San Francisco robotaxis get the green light to operate 24/7

Ryan Daws — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:11:02 +0000

Google’s Waymo and General Motors’ Cruise have both received the green light from California’s regulatory body to implement 24/7 fare-based services for fully driverless rides in San Francisco. The pivotal decision was made by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which voted 3 to 1 in favour of granting the expansion of driverless services for... Read more »

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Cruise robotaxis now run 24/7 in San Francisco

Ryan Daws — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:00:44 +0000

Cruise has announced that it’s now operating 24/7 in San Francisco, marking a significant milestone in its journey. However, the wider public is currently only able to use the service in around one-third of the city between 10pm and 5:30am. Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt has promised that this will soon change as Cruise moves closer... Read more »

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San Francisco officials want the CPUC to slow robotaxi authorisations

Ryan Daws — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:17:04 +0000

San Francisco officials have sent letters to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) expressing their concerns over the pace of robotaxi deployments. Driverless vehicle giants Cruise and Waymo have significant expansion plans for their respective operations in San Francisco. However, their existing deployments have been causing some problems for the city. Some of the reported... Read more »

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Cruise is expanding its robotaxi trials to Arizona and Texas

Ryan Daws — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 11:14:27 +0000

California-based autonomous driving firm Cruise has announced that it’s expanding pilots of its robotaxis to Arizona and Texas. Cruise, which is owned by General Motors, launched driverless rides in San Francisco back in February. The announcement this week marks the first expansion of Cruise’s service. Our team is going from zero footprint in Austin (no... Read more »

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Cruise offers free robotaxi trips in San Francisco without backup drivers

Ryan Daws — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 10:03:45 +0000

Self-driving vehicle service Cruise is offering free public robotaxi trips in San Francisco without backup drivers. The free trips will use Cruise’s fleet of retrofitted Chevrolet Bolt vehicles that includes Poppy and Tostada. These vehicles are ‘Level 4’ meaning they’re fully driverless and don’t require a backup driver but still feature a steering wheel, pedals,... Read more »

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Waymo and Cruise can now offer autonomous vehicle rides to the public

Fin Strathern — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 10:20:28 +0000

Waymo and Cruise have both received approval to offer autonomous vehicle rides to the public by the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Whilst a major step in the push towards autonomous vehicles, both companies will only be allowed to operate in certain parts of the state and under specific conditions. All that remains is... Read more »

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