Cruise’s self-driving vehicles will soon be available on ride-hailing app Uber, as the General Motors-owned group tries to reverse its fortunes after a series of setbacks.
Uber said on Thursday it had signed a “multiyear strategic partnership” with Cruise to make the company’s autonomous cars available to riders on the Uber platform from next year in an undisclosed city.
Cruise has been beset by challenges since a high-profile crash last year in San Francisco involving one of its cars, in which a pedestrian was seriously injured. That triggered a series of investigations into its technology. Its co-founder and former chief executive Kyle Vogt subsequently resigned, and it paused all self-driving operations.