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av trucking · shutdown

Cruise halts driverless operations nationwide

S4 · 10/2023 · Cruise

Record

CompanyCruise
Categoryav trucking
Typeshutdown
Date10/2023
Time of daynot documented
Locationno physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
SeverityS4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding)
Scalefleet-wide
Confidencehigh
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceWSJ/CNBC

What happened

After the California DMV crackdown, GM Cruise voluntarily paused all driverless robotaxi operations across the US, including California, Phoenix, Austin, Dallas, Houston, and Miami.

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