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Episode: Cruise will dispatch some of its trouble-ridden robotaxis to join Uber’s ride-hailing service
Description: Cruise’s trouble-ridden robotaxis are joining Uber’s ride-hailing service next year as part of a multiyear partnership bringing together two companies that were once poised to compete for passengers.
The alliance is the latest change in direction for Cruise since its California license to provide driverless rides was suspended in October 2023 after one of its robotaxis dragged a jaywalking pedestrian who had been struck by a human-driven vehicle across a darkened San Francisco street.
The incident spurred regulatory inquiries into Cruise and prompted its corporate parent, automaker General Motors (GM), to tamp down its once audacious ambitions in autonomous driv...