{"id":174698,"date":"2023-10-25T08:43:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/california-dmv-suspends-cruises-driverless-robotaxis-effective-immediately"},"modified":"2023-10-25T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:43:16","slug":"california-dmv-suspends-cruises-driverless-robotaxis-effective-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/california-dmv-suspends-cruises-driverless-robotaxis-effective-immediately","title":{"rendered":"California DMV Suspends Cruise\u2019s Driverless Robotaxis, Effective Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/california-dmv-suspends-cruises-driverless-robotaxis-effective-immediately2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The abrupt reversal comes in the wake of several high-profile incidents involving Cruise\u2019s autonomous vehicles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/san-francisco\/woman-trapped-cruise-car-san-francisco\/3332464\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">including a hit-and-run<\/a> earlier this month in which a Cruise taxi dragged a pedestrian for 20 feet after they\u2019d been launched into the taxi\u2019s path by a separate car.<\/p>\n<p>The hit-and-run driver remains at large.<\/p>\n<p>Following that crash and a handful of others, Cruise agreed to reduce its autonomous fleet in San Francisco by 50%, capping the taxis to no more than 50 operating during the day and no more than 150 at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The abrupt reversal comes in the wake of several high-profile incidents involving Cruise\u2019s autonomous vehicles, including a hit-and-run earlier this month in which a Cruise taxi dragged a pedestrian for 20 feet after they\u2019d been launched into the taxi\u2019s path by a separate car. The hit-and-run driver remains at large. Following that crash and a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}