California DMV suspended the Cruise robotaxi service in San Francisco after it deemed the service "not safe for the public's operation." The GM-backed startup is accused of withholding a key part of a video following a horrific car crash in San Francisco. Cruise can still operate its ride-hailing service in California, but only with a human safety driver behind the wheel.
The automotive industry has been trying to advance autonomous driving for more than a decade. The benefit of driverless cars could be enormous if done right, dramatically reducing the number of crashes caused by driver errors. The competition in the autonomous driving sector has heated up in the past years, with robotaxi companies like Cruise and Waymo at the forefront of this technology. Like any emergent technology, autonomous driving has not been without pain.
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