General Motors Co. and Cruise LLC, the autonomous vehicle company it has a majority stake in, have filed an application with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to build and commercially deploy a self-driving shuttle.
Rob Grant, Cruise's senior vice president of government affairs and social impact, called the move "a big step toward our vision of a safer, more sustainable and accessible transportation future" in a blog post on the Cruise website announcing it.
The news comes after Cruise earlier this month said it would start offering members of the public free rides on San Francisco streets in its current fleet of self-driving electric Chevrolet Bolts. Cruise is aiming to launch a commercial taxi service this year, a GM executive said in December.
