Autonomous Vehicle News
A Cruise self-driving car, owned by General Motors Corp., is seen outside the company’s headquarters in San Francisco where it does most of its testing, September 26, 2018. REUTERS/Heather SomervilleCalifornia’s auto regulator said it is investigating “recent concerning incidents” involving autonomous vehicles operated by General Motors unit Cruise in San Francisco and asked the company to take half its robotaxis off the roads. The statement from California Department of Motor Vehicles on Friday came after a Cruise robotaxi was involved in a crash with a fire truck in San Francisco on Thursday, the latest accident involving the self-driving cars. The two have been running robotaxi tests limited by times and geographic areas within San Francisco. San Francisco will suffer serious harms from this unfettered expansion,” he said in a statement.