Uber And GM's Cruise Partner For Driverless Rides Starting Next Year

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Uber Technologies and General Motors’ Cruise have announced a multi-year partnership to offer driverless rides to Uber users starting next year. This partnership comes as Cruise seeks to revive its robotaxi business after a 2023 incident in San Francisco, where a pedestrian was dragged by a driverless Cruise vehicle. The incident led to leadership changes and layoffs at Cruise. While details of the partnership remain undisclosed, Cruise continues testing its autonomous vehicles in various cities, aiming for a relaunch of its driverless service.

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00:00It's Benzinga, and here's what's on the block.
00:03Uber Technologies and General Motors' Cruze have announced a multi-year partnership to
00:07offer driverless rides to Uber users starting next year.
00:10This partnership comes as Cruze seeks to revive its robo-taxi business after a 2023 incident
00:15in San Francisco where a pedestrian was dragged by a driverless Cruze vehicle.
00:20The incident led to leadership changes and layoffs at Cruze.
00:23While details of the partnership remain undisclosed, Cruze continues testing its autonomous vehicles
00:28in various cities aiming for a relaunch of its driverless service.
00:32For all things money, visit Benzinga.com

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