California suspends Cruise's driverless robotaxi permits after pedestrian-dragging incident

Following the Oct 2, 2023 pedestrian-dragging incident, the California DMV suspended Cruise's permits to operate driverless vehicles, citing the company's failure to share footage of the dragging and determining the vehicles were not safe for public operation. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) separately suspended Cruise's driverless testing permit roughly three weeks after the incident. Cruise pulled all driverless vehicles off public roads nationwide in response. The suspensions effectively ended Cruise's driverless commercial robotaxi operations in California.

California suspends Cruise's driverless robotaxi permits after pedestrian-dragging incident is recorded as a operational_restriction applying in San Francisco on the DEPLOY registry.

California suspends Cruise's driverless robotaxi permits after pedestrian-dragging incident is recorded as effective October 24, 2023 on the DEPLOY registry.

California suspends Cruise's driverless robotaxi permits after pedestrian-dragging incident is currently in effect and applies to covered operators in the named jurisdiction.

California suspends Cruise's driverless robotaxi permits after pedestrian-dragging incident is recorded as applying to autonomous vehicles on the DEPLOY registry.

8 robot models on the DEPLOY registry match the form-factor scope of California suspends Cruise's driverless robotaxi permits after pedestrian-dragging incident: Apollo RT6, Argo AI Self-Driving System, Aurora, Aurora Driver and 4 others. Form-factor scope match does not by itself establish compliance status; review the underlying primary sources for each operator.