Cruise Halts Driverless Taxi Operations Nationwide After Collisions and Permit Suspensions

Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors, has announced that it will pause all driverless operations in the United States following a directive from California regulators to take its autonomous cars off the state's roads. This decision affects Cruise's robot taxi services in Austin, Texas, and Phoenix, as well as noncommercial operations in Dallas, Houston, and Miami. The company plans to examine its processes and tools to earn public trust. The move is a setback for Cruise, which had been expanding its services and had plans to test driverless vehicles in Nashville and Seattle. The decision comes after a recent incident in which a Cruise vehicle dragged a pedestrian in San Francisco.