Common Motors’ autonomous driving startup, Cruise, mentioned on Tuesday it could reintroduce a small fleet of human-driven autos in some cities, beginning with Phoenix in Arizona, about six months after it suspended operations following an incident in San Francisco.
The corporate had suspended its U.S. operations final October after a pedestrian in San Francisco hit by one other automobile was dragged by one in all its robotaxis.
“Cruise is resuming handbook driving to create maps and collect street info in choose cities, beginning in Phoenix. This work is finished utilizing human-driven autos with out autonomous methods engaged,” the corporate mentioned in a weblog publish.
Cruise mentioned the transfer is essential to validate its self-driving methods in its path to return to driverless operations.
Its rival and Alphabet’s self-driving startup Waymo has been working and increasing companies in Phoenix for a number of years and just lately started providing driverless rides on freeways within the Arizona metropolis.
Beneath Cruise’s former CEO Kyle Vogt, firm officers had earlier mentioned their choice to concentrate on San Francisco would ship a extra sturdy autonomous automobile know-how than creating software program on the broad boulevards of a metropolis like Phoenix.
Cruise mentioned in the course of the operational pause over the previous couple of months, it has been conducting in depth checks in advanced environments and on closed programs to make sure steady retraining and enchancment.
(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru and Joe White in Detroit; Modifying by Shilpi Majumdar)
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