Cruise AV (Chevrolet Bolt)

Cruise's driverless robotaxi, based on the Chevrolet Bolt EV, is the wound-down cautionary anchor of DEPLOY's robotaxi cluster. It operated without a human safety driver in San Francisco commercial service from 2023 until driverless operations ended after the October 2, 2023 pedestrian-dragging incident. (Cruise also developed the purpose-built, steering-wheel-free Origin, which was shelved.) In December 2024, GM defunded the Cruise robotaxi business, consolidated the unit in-house, and redirected the autonomous technology toward personal-vehicle advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) rather than robotaxis, per a GM SEC 8-K. There is no consumer price, and the robotaxi program is discontinued: the commercial-era San Francisco deployment records are preserved as historical state, while the current direction is ADAS, not robotaxis.

Readiness

Cruise AV (Chevrolet Bolt) is discontinued, the 1 capability claim on file is all autonomous with verified, 6 verified deployments are on file, and 14 incidents are on record.

Availability

discontinued

Discontinued.

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Price honesty

no-price

No price points on file for Cruise AV (Chevrolet Bolt).

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Capability honesty

autonomous

1 reviewed claim: autonomous, verified.

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Real-world use

commercial

Maturity: commercial. 6 verified deployments in the registry.

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Safety record

incidents-on-file

14 incidents on record across 6 verified deployments.

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What it claims to do

• Transports passengersautonomous· verifiedevidence ↗

Price

No reviewed price points on file.

Real-world use

• Phoenix operated by Cruise2023-01-01
• Austin operated by Cruise2023-01-01
• Dallas operated by Cruise2023-01-01
• Miami operated by Cruise2023-01-01
• Houston operated by Cruise2023-01-01
• San Francisco operated by Cruise2021-11-01

Safety record

• Cruise admits a false report to a federal investigation; $500K DOJ deferred-prosecution agreement2024-11-14
• NHTSA fines Cruise $1.5M for failing to fully report the Oct 2023 pedestrian-dragging crash2024-09-30
• Cruise recalls its entire 1,194-vehicle fleet over unexpected hard braking2024-08-22
• Software May Cause Unexpected Braking2024-08-09
• Cruise recalls 950 ADS units (NHTSA 23E-086) over post-crash pullover behavior2023-11-07
• ADS Software May Improperly Respond After a Crash2023-11-07
• California DMV suspends Cruise's driverless deployment and testing permits as not safe for public operation2023-10-24
• Cruise driverless robotaxi dragged a pedestrian ~20 feet in San Francisco2023-10-02
• Cruise robotaxi collided with an SF fire truck responding to an emergency; one passenger injured2023-08-17
• Cruise driverless car ran over San Francisco Fire Department hose lines during firefighting operations2023-05-09
• Cruise recalls 300 ADS units (NHTSA 23E-029) over articulated-vehicle misprediction2023-04-03
• ADS Software Error May Cause Crash2023-04-03
• San Francisco firefighter broke a Cruise robotaxi window after it advanced toward an active fire scene2023-01-22
• Cruise recalls 80 ADS units (NHTSA 22E-072) over unprotected-left hard-braking software2022-08-29

Privacy

No privacy practices disclosed or on file for Cruise AV (Chevrolet Bolt).

Specs

autonomy_level

driverless (no human safety driver)

What's under the hood

No brain on file for Cruise AV (Chevrolet Bolt).

Frequently asked questions

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Sources

1. CBS — Chevrolet Bolt autonomous EV dragged pedestrian ~20 feet at ~7 mph · https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/nhtsa-robotaxi-cruise-pay-penalty-failing-report-san-francisco-crash-involving-pedestrian/ ↗ · 2024-11-12
2. GM exits robotaxi market; halts funding of Cruise robotaxi development, folds unit in-house (Dec 10, 2024) · https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/10/gm-halts-funding-of-robotaxi-development-by-cruise.html ↗
3. General Motors (SEC 8-K exhibit) - realigning autonomous strategy; ending Cruise robotaxi development (Dec 2024) · https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467858/000119312524274336/d917047dex991.htm ↗
4. Cruise — history, GM acquisition, Oct 2023 suspension, Dec 2024 GM defunding · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_(autonomous_vehicle) ↗
5. GM axed Cruise funding Dec 2024 after major accident · https://www.chinatalk.media/p/ponyais-robotaxis-and-the-long-road ↗ · 2025-01-03
6. Honda joins Cruise and GM: US$2.75B total commitment (US$750M equity investment + ~US$2B over 12 years) · https://global.honda/en/newsroom/news/2018/c181003eng.html ↗ · 2018-10-03
7. CPUC pulls Cruise's robotaxi permit after DMV suspension (Oct 24, 2023) · https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/cpuc-pulls-cruise-robotaxi-permit-after-dmv-suspension/ ↗
8. California DMV statement on the Cruise LLC permit suspension (Oct 2023) · https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/news-and-media/dmv-statement-on-cruise-llc-suspension/ ↗
9. Two state agencies ground Cruise driverless cars for public safety (Oct 2023) · https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/10/driverless-cars-cruise-dmv/ ↗
10. GM shuts its Cruise robotaxi unit (Dec 2024) · https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/general-motors-shuts-cruise-robotaxi-unit-mary-barra/735205/ ↗
11. Cruise — official site; Cruise operated fully driverless paid rides in San Francisco following CPUC commercial driverless permit (June 2023); service paused October 2023 following NHTSA investigation of a pedestrian-related incident; Cruise holds verified capability to transport passengers autonomously · https://getcruise.com/ ↗ · 2023-06-22
12. Cruise gets California permit to offer unlimited driverless rides — Reuters, June 2023; documents CPUC granting Cruise first-ever 24/7 driverless ride-for-hire permit in San Francisco · https://www.reuters.com/technology/cruise-gets-california-permit-offer-unlimited-driverless-rides-2023-06-22/ ↗ · 2023-06-22
13. Wikimedia Commons file "File:Cruise Automation Bolt EV third generation in San Francisco.jpg" (CC BY-SA 4.0; author: Dllu). Discovered via commons-search for Cruise AV (Chevrolet Bolt). Downloaded 2026-07-25 and re-hosted on the DEPLOY blob store; original file URL https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Cruise_Automation_Bolt_EV_third_generation_in_San_Francisco.jpg. · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cruise_Automation_Bolt_EV_third_generation_in_San_Francisco.jpg ↗ · 2026-07-25
14. Cruise soft-launches robotaxi rides in Phoenix and Austin · https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/20/cruise-soft-launches-robotaxi-rides-in-phoenix-and-austin/ ↗ · 2022-12-20
15. Cruise pauses all driverless robotaxi operations · https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/26/cruise-pauses-all-driverless-robotaxi-operations-to-rebuild-public-trust/ ↗ · 2023-10-26
16. No more Cruise robotaxis · https://www.fox7austin.com/news/no-more-cruise-robotaxis-general-motors-acquisition ↗ · 2025-02-04
17. GM scraps its Cruise robotaxi service after resuming Dallas testing · https://dallasinnovates.com/gm-scraps-its-cruise-robotaxi-service-after-resuming-dallas-testing/ ↗ · 2024-12-11
18. Cruise starts initial robotaxi testing in Miami · https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/20/cruise-starts-initial-robotaxi-testing-in-miami/ ↗ · 2023-07-20
19. Cruise opens robotaxi service in Houston · https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/12/cruise-opens-robotaxi-service-in-houston/ ↗ · 2023-10-12
20. Cruise gets first California driverless deployment permit (charge fares) in SF · https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/cruise-gets-green-light-for-commercial-robotaxis-in-san-francisco.html ↗
21. Cruise's driverless cars start giving rides to paying passengers in SF · https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/24/cruises-driverless-autonomous-cars-start-giving-rides-to-paying-passengers/ ↗
22. CPUC approves Cruise + Waymo fared passenger service in SF (Aug 2023) · https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/news-and-updates/all-news/cpuc-approves-permits-for-cruise-and-waymo-to-charge-fares-for-passenger-service-in-sf-2023 ↗
23. California DMV immediately suspends Cruise's robotaxi permit (Oct 2023 pedestrian-dragging) · https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/dmv-immediately-suspends-cruises-robotaxi-permit-in-california/ ↗
24. California DMV suspends permits for Cruise driverless robotaxis · https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/cruise-llc-driverless-robotaxis-california-dmv-suspends-permits/ ↗
25. GM to refocus autonomous driving on personal vehicles (Cruise robotaxi wind-down, Dec 2024) · https://news.gm.com/home.detail.html/Pages/news/us/en/2024/dec/1210-gm.html ↗
26. GM to stop funding its Cruise robotaxi business · https://fortune.com/2024/12/10/general-motors-stop-funding-cruise-robotaxi-business/ ↗ · 2024-12-10

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