General Motors’ robotic taxi service Cruise has signed a multi-year deal with Uber. The deal will allow Uber customers to order Cruise driverless taxis from their smartphones starting next year. . This means that Cruise’s self-driving taxis will be back on the road for the first time since they hit a pedestrian in San Francisco in October 2023.
Neither GM nor Uber gave a specific date or city for Uber to launch Cruise’s robot taxis. The new partnership between Cruise and Uber will follow Cruise’s relaunch of its driverless taxi service in 2025, a spokesperson told the website.
Cruise is currently testing self-driving cars on roads , and with plans to expand into more cities. Uber is also partnering with self-driving car fleets currently operating in Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
He also just agreed with Cruise Following an investigation launched in December 2022 into three rear-end crashes involving autonomous vehicles. The company was under another investigation in October after a crash in San Francisco in which one of its cars was hit by a human-driven car that struck a pedestrian. causing further injuries.
A third-party report released by Cruise found that executives were aware of the incident but did not disclose it in meetings with city officials and federal agencies. after an investigation late last year. The company also agreed to pay a fine Allowing Cruise to resume operations in the state.
