The company announced Thursday that Cruise Autonomous Vehicle. Which is majority-own by General Motors, has just receive final approval to offer its robotic services to paying drivers in San Francisco.
Cruz boasted in a blog post that the permit was. The first driverless license issue by the California Communal Services Commission. Making the company the first to operate a “commercial driverless service in a major US city.”.
The company’s cars are all-electric and battery-powered. Which is also a potential benefit of reducing greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. In addition, the company told CPUC in a letter in April 2021. That it aims to make California’s roads safer and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Previously, the California Department of Motor Vehicles granted permission to deploy autonomous vehicles to Alphabet’s Cruise and Waymo.
Cruise already offers its self-driving car overnight trips to the public in San Francisco, though it has not yet charged passengers.
Previously, San Francisco police pulled over a car without a Cruise driver, and the crash video went viral. The California DMV told news that the department has yet to issue driverless driver’s licenses despite the incident in late April.
Rodney Brooks, honorary professor of robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recently took a driverless Cruise taxi and wrote positively about the experience on his blog.
He said, “Cruz created the MVP, ‘Minimum Eligible Product, Key to Successful Technology. However, he also clarified that he doesn’t think mass adoption of driverless cars is imminent, writing. We still have a long root to go, and mass adoption may not come in the form of an individual replacement for human driving that has fueled this dream for the last decade or so.”
Cruise racers are also testing driverless cars in San Francisco.