Autonomous Vehicle News
Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving car unit, has agreed to reduce the number of vehicles in San Francisco by half following two recent crashes — one involving an emergency vehicle. The California Department of Motor Vehicles requested on Saturday that Cruise “immediately reduce its active fleet of operating vehicles”. The controversy stems most immediately from two crashes involving Cruise autonomous cars in San Francisco on Thursday. At around 10 p.m. Thursday night a Cruise vehicle carrying a passenger without a human driver collided with an emergency vehicle as it was responding to a call. A different Cruise car, which was not carrying a passenger, was also involved in an accident elsewhere in the city Thursday night.