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A map of Cruise’s expanded service space in Phoenix. | Supply: Cruise
Cruise has lately drastically expanded its service space in Phoenix, AZ, with its new service space being 20 instances the scale of its earlier service space.
The brand new service space will first be accessible to Cruise’s “energy customers” and a few family and friends, however finally the corporate will open it as much as members of the general public. Cruise’s new service space will cowl Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, and a part of town of Phoenix.
Simply weeks in the past, Kyle Vogt, the co-founder and CEO of Cruise, introduced that Cruise automobiles might be heading to Nashville. Nashville will turn out to be the seventh metropolis that the corporate has began operations in.
Cruise’s journey began in San Francisco, and since then the corporate has deployed its robotaxis in Phoenix and Austin, and has began operations in Houston, Dallas, and Miami. In accordance with Vogt, we will anticipate to begin seeing Cruise robotaxis in Nashville throughout the subsequent few months.
The corporate’s technique for rolling out its robotaxi service has been to begin in probably the most difficult locations, like San Francisco which is infamous for heavy site visitors, steep hills, and intense fog, after which apply what it has discovered to different cities.
Whereas Cruise has had a lot success in rolling out its robotaxi companies, it hasn’t been with out challenges. Earlier this yr, the corporate issued a voluntary recall of 300 Cruise automobiles with the Nationwide Freeway Transportation Security Administration (NHTSA). The recall was in response to a minor collision the place a Cruise robotaxi hit the again of a San Francisco bus.
Cruise’s autonomous driving system can also be presently being investigated by NHTSA. In a submitting, NHSTA mentioned it was taken with two totally different points that had been reported to the administration that each outcome within the robotaxis turning into hazards for others on the street.