A Cruise vehicle in San Francisco on Feb. 2, 2022.
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General Motors’ Cruise self-driving vehicle unit will redeploy cars on U.S. roadways Tuesday for the first time since October, beginning with a small fleet of human-driven vehicles in Phoenix, the company said.
The relaunch comes after the company ceased operations weeks after an Oct. 2 accident in which a pedestrian in San Francisco was dragged 20 feet by a Cruise robotaxi after being struck by a separate vehicle.
The redeployed vehicles will not operate as they previously did — as robotaxis — but will “create maps and gather road information in select cities, starting in Phoenix,” the company said.
Cruise said its “goal is to resume driverless operations,” however it did not provide a timeline for doing so. It also did not provide a timetable to expanding human-driven vehicles to other…
