# Cruise AV: Price, Availability & Status (2026)

Cruise's driverless robotaxi (Chevy Bolt) was wound down: driverless ops ended after the Oct 2, 2023 incident; GM defunded the business Dec 2024 and redirected to personal-vehicle ADAS. Discontinued.

## Price

_No verified price on record._

There is no consumer price, and the robotaxi program is discontinued. Cruise's robotaxi was a ride service, not a vehicle sold to consumers, so DEPLOY records zero price points.

## Availability

_Status: discontinued_

The Cruise robotaxi program is discontinued. After the October 2, 2023 incident, driverless operations ended; in December 2024 GM defunded the robotaxi business and redirected the technology toward personal-vehicle ADAS rather than robotaxis.

## Status

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. The commercial-era San Francisco deployment records are preserved as historical state; the current direction is ADAS, not robotaxis.

## Compare

| Model | Pricing | Tier |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Waymo Driver (6th-gen)](/price/waymo-driver-gen6) | No consumer price | absence (Verified-commercial driverless) |
| [Zoox Robotaxi](/price/zoox-robotaxi) | No consumer price | absence (Pilot (purpose-built, free demos)) |
| [Baidu Apollo RT6](/price/apollo-rt6) | No consumer price | absence (Commercial at scale (China)) |
| [Tesla Cybercab](/price/tesla-cybercab) | <$30K target | stated (Promised (announced, no date)) |

## Common questions

### Can I ride or buy a Cruise robotaxi?

No. The Cruise robotaxi program is discontinued. Driverless operations ended after the October 2, 2023 incident, and GM defunded the robotaxi business in December 2024, redirecting the technology to personal-vehicle ADAS.

### Why did Cruise shut down its robotaxi?

Driverless operations ended after the October 2, 2023 pedestrian-dragging incident in San Francisco; in December 2024 GM defunded the robotaxi business and redirected the autonomous technology toward personal-vehicle ADAS (GM SEC 8-K).

## How DEPLOY verified this

- [How DEPLOY tracks pricing](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-track-pricing)
- [How DEPLOY verifies deployment status](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-verify-deployment-status)

## Related reading

- [Deploy News: Robotaxis](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/robotaxi)
- [Deploy News: How DEPLOY verifies](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/how-deploy-verifies)

## On the registry

- [Model record](https://registry.deploy.report/models/cruise-av.md)
- [Manufacturer](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/cruise.md)

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