Cruise, an autonomous vehicle, is slowly returning to work in California after a pedestrian was hit. About 20 feet by robotaxis in October 2023. Company At X, he reintroduces human-driven mapping tools to the streets of Mountain View and Sunnyvale. Its next stated goal is to “move into controlled trials with up to 5 AVs this fall.”
Last year was not a pretty picture for Cruise By GM in 2016. On October 2 last year, a pedestrian in San Francisco was hit by a human driver who fled the scene, but the impact sent him into the path of a driverless cruise taxi, which dragged him 20 feet and eventually came to rest. from the leg. Cruise was after the incident License to drive autonomous vehicles in California. The company has suspended all operations of both and to engage in comprehensive security research.
CEO Kyle Vogt in November, then co-founder and chief product officer Daniel Kahn GM Plans to cut Cruise’s funding and restructure management based on foreign security probes. There were nine other members of Cruise’s management in December and was about a quarter of the company’s workforce that month. The last blow was one In January 2024, the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission questioned whether the company had disclosed additional details about the crash during investigations with regulators.
But since then, Cruise has been making a gradual comeback. Vehicles with drivers are back in April and in June. The resurgence in Texas was coupled with GM’s announcement that it would invest $850 million in Cruise to support operating costs. Now it has rejoined the California market, albeit in an extremely weakened capacity. All of these new excursions are preliminary, and none of the self-driving cars are back on the streets yet. But Cruise still has a long way to go to prove its safety credentials and regain public trust.
