Autonomous Vehicle News
California has served as one of the earliest testing grounds for autonomous vehicles (AVs), particularly robotaxis like the one’s Cruise and Waymo offer. Cruise, for example, was founded in San Francisco in 2013 and was the first company authorized to test robotaxis in California in June 2021. Although the company began in Phoenix, San Francisco was also the first California city it deployed its robotaxis in. Both Waymo and Cruise received their driverless pilot permit from the CPUC for San Francisco at the same time, allowing them to begin charging for some rides. The recall was in response to a minor collision where a Cruise robotaxi hit the back of a San Francisco bus.