More than a dozen of Cruise’s robotaxis blocked off a street in San Francisco last week after randomly gathering together. Images first shared to Reddit show a fleet of Cruise robotaxis stopped at and around the intersection of Gough and Fulton Streets. While Cruise has been testing its self-driving technology in San Francisco for a […]
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Late on Thursday, Cruise became the first company to win a permit to charge customers in San Fransisco, California for rides in self-driving cars. The company said it will start rolling out fared rides gradually, expanding slowly for the smoothest customer service experience possible. Although the company was operating in San Francisco before, it is […]
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Early last month, a fire truck on its way to an emergency was prevented from moving forward, in part, by a Cruise AV test vehicle. This is one of a handful of incidents giving San Francisco city officials pause as a proposed permit program is being crafted for autonomous ride-hailing vehicles. The event took place […]
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Cruise is working alongside General Motors’ BrightDrop business to develop autonomous delivery vehicles. The two GM-controlled companies are developing a self-driving system that can be used in electric vans, opening up the possibility of autonomous delivery vehicles, a new report states. Importantly, Cruise is not thought to be prioritizing work with BrightDrop just quite yet. […]
Read MoreUpdate, April 11, 4:00 PM: This story has been updated to include a comment from the San Francisco police. Some paragraphs have been updated to reflect the new information. A Cruise autonomous test vehicle was pulled over in San Francisco’s Richmond District this weekend for driving without its lights on. Video of the event was […]
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General Motors has purchased SoftBank Vision Fund 1’s stake in self-driving company Cruise for $2.1 billion. By purchasing SoftBank’s stake in Cruise, General Motors now has an 80 per cent stake in the company. The car manufacturer has also revealed that it will invest an additional $1.35 billion in Cruise. SoftBank initially paid $2.25 billion […]
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Cruise is gearing up to launch its robotaxi service in a host of new cities throughout the United States. The General Motors majority-owned self-driving vehicle company has been testing its autonomous vehicles in San Francisco, California for a number of years now and on February 1, started offering free driverless rides in the city. Speaking […]
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Cruise has petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to allow them to build the Origin and put it into commercial service. The news is years in the making and the company noted the petition signals they are “ready to build and deploy the Origin.” While the driverless vehicle still needs to be given the […]
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General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra and its president Mark Reuss recently took rides in two autonomous vehicles made by the automaker’s subsidiary, Cruise. The ride, said Barra, was one of the highlights of her career. Barra took a drive around San Francisco with Cruise co-founder and interim CEO Kyle Vogt in a car called “Tostada,” […]
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