General Motors' (GM.N) driverless car unit Cruise said late Thursday it will suspend all operations nationwide after California regulators this week ordered the robotaxi operator to remove its driverless cars from state roads.
California's Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday said Cruise driverless vehicles were a risk to the public and that the company had "misrepresented" the technology's safety.
Cruise said Thursday the decision is unrelated to any new on-road incidents, and supervised autonomous vehicle operations will continue. Earlier Thursday, U.S. auto safety officials said they were investigating five additional reports of Cruise self-driving cars engaging in inappropriately hard braking that resulted in collisions.December it had opened a formal safety probe
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