Cruise was allowed to begin charging customers for driverless rides in San Francisco this year, but only with a safety driver present. The new proposal would allow the company to operate those cars without drivers at certain times and in certain places.
GM is hoping Cruise’s driverless taxi service turns into a vast new business. Regulators in California on Friday released a proposal that would allow a division of General Motors, Cruise, to begin offering driverless taxi rides to paying customers in San Francisco later this year. It would be the first such service allowed on public roads in the state.
“The fleet has traveled in driverless mode about 40 times the distance from San Francisco to New York City, and Cruise is using the learnings to drive continuous improvement,” Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors, said in a statement this week. The utilities commission’s proposal would allow Cruise to offer rides in cars without safety drivers on select streets in San Francisco between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., a time when the cars would encounter less traffic and fewer pedestrians and bicyclists. Cruise would be authorized to collect fares but would not be allowed to carry passengers sharing a ride and traveling to different destinations.
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