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GM’s Cruise robotaxis are back in Phoenix — but people are driving them


Cruise is redeploying robotaxis in Phoenix after nearly five months of paused operations, the company said in a blog post. The catch? The cars will be in

Cruise will resume manual driving of its autonomous vehicles to create maps and gather road information in certain cities, starting with Phoenix, the company said Tuesday. The General Motors subsidiary already had a presence in Phoenix before it pulled its entire U.S.-based fleet last year following an incident in San Francisco that left a pedestrian stuck under and dragged by a Cruise robotaxi. Creating high-quality maps and gathering road information yet again should allow Cruise to meet elevated safety and performance targets, the company said in its blog post.

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