Cruise Automation has more than doubled its fleet in the past three months.
Cruise is General Motors’ self-driving unit, acquired early last year as the American automaker works on accelerating its autonomous vehicle development. According to a GM spokesman, Cruise has increased its fleet to 100 self-driving prototypes during the past three months, compared to the previous 30 to 40 units.
The company is testing the self-driving Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles in San Francisco, California and has reported a total of 13 collisions to California regulators this year, with six of them coming last month. Cruise said those six accidents involved other cars and a bicyclist hitting its test cars.
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“All of our incidents this year were caused by the other vehicle,” Rebecca Mark, spokeswoman for GM Cruise, told . None of the accidents resulted in injuries or serious damage.
In addition to testing in San Francisco, Cruise Automation also announced late last year that it would test its self-driving cars in Scottsdale, Arizona.
[Source: Reuters]
