Deployment
Cruise AV (Chevrolet Bolt) at San Francisco
Cruise's driverless robotaxi, based on the Chevrolet Bolt EV, operating without a human safety driver in its SF commercial service. The vehicle involved in the Oct 2, 2023 pedestrian-dragging incident was a Chevrolet Bolt-based Cruise AV. (Cruise also developed the purpose-built, steering-wheel-free Origin, which was shelved.) Driverless operations ended following the 2023 incident and GM's Dec 2024 defunding of the robotaxi business.
Cruise AV (Chevrolet Bolt) by Cruise · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
Operator: Cruise (GM subsidiary, ran its own service). Cruise operated a driverless (no safety driver) commercial robotaxi service in San Francisco — first driverless ride Nov 2021, open to the public Feb 2022 — under a CPUC driverless deployment permit. The service ENDED after the Oct 2, 2023 pedestrian-dragging incident: the California DMV suspended Cruise's driverless permits, the CPUC suspended its testing permit ~3 weeks later, and Cruise pulled all driverless vehicles off the road nationwide. GM stopped funding the robotaxi business in Dec 2024. Status: ended. See linked incident (cruise-sf pedestrian dragging) and regulation (CA permit suspension).
Incidents on record (1)
- Cruise driverless robotaxi dragged a pedestrian ~20 feet in San Francisco2023-10-02 · Injury
Direct incidents recorded against this deployment. Retracted incidents are excluded here but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-05-26
- Model
- Cruise AV (Chevrolet Bolt)
- Company
- Cruise
- Location
- San Francisco
- Status
- ended
- First seen
- 2021-11-01
- ID
8cc5494e-c5c6-401a-b67f-b5fd7338e8af
Verifications (0)
No verifications recorded yet.
Sources (2)
- Cruise — Sept 2021 CA DMV driverless permit, Nov 2021 first ride, Feb 2022 public, Oct 2023 suspension · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_(autonomous_vehicle) · 2026-01-01
- CBS — DMV suspended permits; Cruise pulled cars nationwide · https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/nhtsa-robotaxi-cruise-pay-penalty-failing-report-san-francisco-crash-involving-pedestrian/ · 2024-11-12
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