GM-Backed Cruise Plans To Remove Backup Test Operators By The End Of The Year

GM-Backed Cruise Plans To Remove Backup Test Operators By The End Of The Year

GM's Cruise plans to remove test operators from its fleet of electric Chevrolet Bolts by the end of ... [+] the year.



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San Francisco traffic is notoriously hard to navigate, and that's precisely why Cruise plans to test its fully driverless vehicles on those streets first.

Cruise announced today that it had received its driverless testing permit from the California DMV, and it plans to use it in the city by the end of the year.

The GM-backed startup is the fifth company to receive a permit that enables it to operate a self-driving vehicle without a human driver sitting behind the steering wheel on public streets in California. Until now, each self-driving Chevrolet Bolt carried two