San Francisco Picked To Be Test Site For GM’s Driverless Taxi Service

CBS San Francisco

December 9, 2020 at 10:32 am

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) — San Francisco will act as the testing ground for General Motors’ self-driving car company, Cruise, who plans to launch a driverless taxi service to compete with rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft.

The move announced Wednesday by GM-owned Cruise come two months after the company received California’s permission to fully driverless cars in the state.

Like dozens of other companies testing the robotic technology, Cruise’s self-driving cars have been allowed on California public streets for several years with humans poised behind the wheel to take over in an emergency. Now, Cruise is confident enough to send out its self-driving cars without that safety net, although they will still be monitored by humans from remote locations instead of inside the vehicle.

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