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Cruise Is Back Driving Autonomously After Pedestrian-Dragging Incident

Cruise's autonomous vehicles have resumed operation in Phoenix, Arizona, following an incident in San Francisco last October where a driverless vehicle dragged a pedestrian. The Verge reports: Cruise spokesperson Tiffany Testo said the company is deploying only two autonomous vehicles with safety d...

Eventually, the service area will "gradually expand" to include Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Tempe, Mesa, Gilbert, and Chandler -- "measured against predetermined safety benchmarks." Regulators accused the company of misleading them about the nature and severity of the incident, in which a pedestrian was dragged over 20 feet by a driverless Cruise after first being struck by a hit-and-run driver. Several top executives have since left the company, including founder and CEO Kyle Vogt, and around a quarter of employees were laid off.

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