Cruise is back driving autonomously for the first time since pedestrian-dragging incident
by Andrew J. Hawkins from The Verge - All Posts on (#6MS0P)
Photo: Getty Images Cruise's autonomous vehicles are officially back on the road and driving autonomously for the first time since one of its driverless vehicles dragged a pedestrian over 20 feet in San Francisco.
Cruise said last month that it would resume testing with manually driven vehicles focused on mapping and gathering road information - minor tasks for a company with as many autonomous miles as Cruise. But Cruise needs to show local officials that it is suitably apologetic for the pedestrian-dragging incident by going slow and talking a lot about safety and trust. The company is deploying its vehicles in Phoenix, Arizona, which has long been a hotbed for autonomous vehicle testing.
Cruise needs to show local officials that it is suitably...