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.\nREUTERS/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.\nThe 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.\nThe two have been running robotaxi tests limited by times and geographic areas within San Francisco.\nSan Francisco will suffer serious harms from this unfettered expansion,” he said in a statement.
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"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle unit agrees to cut fleet in half after 2 crashes in San Francisco","slug":"gms-cruise-autonomous-vehicle-unit-agrees-to-cut-fleet-in-half-after-2-crashes-in-san-francisco","publishDate":"2023-08-19 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-08-20 14:31:13.720132","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has agreed to cut its fleet of San Francisco robotaxis in half as authorities investigate two recent crashes in the city.\nThe state Department of Motor Vehicles asked for the reduction after a Cruise vehicle without a human driver collided with an unspecified emergency vehicle on Thursday.\nThe DMV said Cruise will have no more than 50 driverless vehicles in operation during the day and 150 in operation at night.\nThe development comes just over a week after regulators allowed Cruise and Google spinoff Waymo to operate autonomous robotaxis throughout San Francisco at all hours.\nCruise said its vehicle identified the emergency vehicle and braked at an intersection with limited visibility.
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"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle unit agrees to cut fleet in half after 2 crashes in San Francisco","slug":"gms-cruise-autonomous-vehicle-unit-agrees-to-cut-fleet-in-half-after-2-crashes-in-san-francisco","publishDate":"2023-08-19 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-08-20 14:31:11.759561","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"(AP) - General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has agreed to cut its fleet of San Francisco robotaxis in half as authorities investigate two recent crashes in the city.\nThe state Department of Motor Vehicles asked for the reduction after a Cruise vehicle without a human driver collided with an unspecified emergency vehicle on Thursday.\n“The DMV is investigating recent concerning incidents involving Cruise vehicles in San Francisco,” the DMV said Saturday in a statement to The Associated Press.\nThe Cruise autonomous vehicle detected the siren as soon it was distinguishable from background noise, he wrote.\nThe Cruise vehicle identified the risk of a crash and braked, reducing its speed, but couldn’t avoid the collision, he wrote.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle unit agrees to cut fleet in half after 2 crashes in San Francisco","slug":"gms-cruise-autonomous-vehicle-unit-agrees-to-cut-fleet-in-half-after-2-crashes-in-san-francisco","publishDate":"2023-08-19 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-08-20 14:31:09.824227","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has agreed to cut its fleet of San Francisco robotaxis in half as authorities investigate two recent crashes in the city.\n“The DMV is investigating recent concerning incidents involving Cruise vehicles in San Francisco,” the DMV said Saturday in a statement to The Associated Press.\nThe California state Department of Motor Vehicles asked for General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit to reduce its fleet in San Francisco after a Cruise vehicle without a human driver collided with an unspecified emergency vehicle on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2023.\nThe Cruise autonomous vehicle detected the siren as soon it was distinguishable from background noise, he wrote.\nThe Cruise vehicle identified the risk of a crash and braked, reducing its speed, but couldn’t avoid the collision, he wrote.
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