GM's Cruise recalls self-driving taxis, updates software after crash

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GM’s Cruise recalls self-driving taxis, updates software after crash

Written by Graham Hope / IoT World Today
18th April 2023

Self-driving company Cruise has recalled its robotaxi fleet for a software update after an incident in San Francisco in late March.

Pictures shared widely at the time on social media showed how one of the General Motors’ subsidiary’s driverless Chevrolet Bolts ran into the back of a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (Muni) bus. No one was injured in the collision.

In the immediate aftermath of the images appearing on Twitter, Cruise acknowledged the accident, said it was investigating further and would take action if required.

Now, in a blog post on the company website, CEO Kyle Vogt has explained exactly what happened – and how it prompted Cruise to issue a voluntary recall with the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration as a result.

Describing the incident as “exceptionally rare” Vogt claimed that nothing similar had happened in more than 1 million miles of driverless testing. And he went on to describe how the bus had pulled out from a bus stop into a lane of traffic, then come to a halt, with the Cruise vehicle not braking swiftly enough and subsequently rear-ending the bus.

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