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Cruise Self-Driving Taxis Start Daytime Rides in San Francisco
Cruise Self-Driving Taxis Start Daytime Rides in San Francisco-April 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:10:24

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is now offering daytime driverless rides in its autonomous vehicles for users in San Francisco. Finally, after months of the being limited to nighttime fares, the little — based on the — are being released into the hills of San Francisco to pick up passengers in the cold light of day.

Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt celebrated the achievement on , saying the first daytime ride took place early on Thursday morning and added that the service will soon be available to the public. Daytime rides in Cruise AVs are currently only open to select users of the ride-hailing service, but the tech-heavy General Motors subsidiary says it working toward a wider roll out the robotaxi service.

Part of that expansion will include merging the company’s day and service areas where its Chevy Bolt EV robotaxis roam — and where they also happen to be for stalling. There have been a few cases so far of Cruise shortly after the tiny robotaxis started operating without human drivers onboard to act as failsafes. Without a human driver, the Cruise AVs stopped operating, which left some passengers stranded at night and also blocked emergency vehicles.

As if the server crashes and subsequent stalling weren’t enough, Cruise’s self-driving cars have also been in a number of since testing began and, after, when the driverless ride-hailing service started taking fares at night in San Francisco. That’s presumably why Cruise is being cautious about opening up the daytime service to the public, and why it’s doing so in a stepped approached.

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The is adamant about the need for safe transportation that’s reliable and also available at night; the company positioned its focus on night drives as a safer alternative to driving at so-called dangerous times. Even if that’s true, traffic tends to be denser in the daytime. More drivers, more cars and more pedestrians raise the stakes for autonomous vehicles, which are still trying to iron out the kinks.

It’s been a to finally get actual self-driving cars and cars to a point where a major auto manufacturer like GM can commercialize robotaxis, and accept the that comes with it.

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