San Francisco has granted approval to GM-owned Cruise for it to offer a commercial ride-hailing service to paying customers within the city limits.
The General Motors-owned autonomous ride-hailing service has been granted a permit by San Francisco to begin offering rides to the public in it driverless vehicles.
The permit allows Cruise to operate a fleet of 30 vehicles within a set zone they have been optimized for, but only between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. for the time being, in order to reduce the probability for accidents.Cruise currently uses modified versions of the Chevrolet Bolt EV. The service works via an app like Uber or Lyft and has been open to employees and their friends and family members since the beginning of the year in a private test program meant to demonstrate safety.has even taken a trip around town, one that she described as "surreal."Cruise competitor Waymo has already been running a driverless ride-hailing program in the Phoenix suburbs, but Cruise is the first to get approval to operate a commercial service in a dense urban center.
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