Autonomous Vehicle News
The company, which has had 400 driverless vehicles operating in the city, will now have no more than 50 cars running during the day and 150 at night. Cruise is one of two companies — the other is Waymo, owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company — that can now charge for rides in their autonomous vehicles 24 hours a day in San Francisco. When Cruise and Waymo pitched their cars to regulators in December, road safety was a crucial component of their argument. Unlike some human drivers, the artificial intelligence running the vehicles abides by speed limits and doesn’t get distracted, the companies maintained. The two companies have said that in their first million miles of fully autonomous driving, there were no fatalities or life-threatening injuries.