( ) -q-24- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “throughout San Francisco.” GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update its software after one dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street last month. [CutID: <Cuts> GM-RECALL-house-q-WEDam.mp3 Time: 24s Title: GM-RECALL-house-q-WEDam Out-cue: throughout San Francisco] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy […]
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GM’s autonomous vehicle unit recalls cars for software update
( ) -q-24- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “throughout San Francisco.”
GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update its software after one dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street last month.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. In the crash, a human driven vehicle hit a pedestrian, pushing them in front of a Cruise autonomous vehicle.
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VERBATIM: The company says with the updated software, Cruise vehicles will remain stationary in similar cases. The October second crash forced Cruise to suspend driverless operations nationwide after California regulators found its cars were a safety hazard. The California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the license for Cruise, which was transporting passengers without human drivers throughout San Francisco.