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It was a bit surprising when Cruise, the autonomous vehicle startup that’s 80% owned by General Motors, said it planned to expand its robotaxi service to Phoenix and Austin over the next three months.
The company had just recalled a previous version of its self-driving software that was in use when a car got in an accident with a human-driven Toyota Prius back in June. That same month, a bug in the system caused about a dozen Cruise autonomous vehicles to all stop in one intersection, blocking traffic for hours. There were no serious injuries but it seemed like one of the many moments when self-driving technology had some glitches and needed to pause.
Not so, said Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt. After providing thousands of truly driverless rides and doing a lot more testing, those two incidents were rarities, he said.
The software is becoming a better driver all the time, Vogt said.