Cruise, General Motors' subsidiary for autonomous vehicles, has issued a voluntary recall to update its driverless cars. The recall was a result of a bus crash in San Francisco on March 23, 2023, involving a Cruise autonomous vehicle and an articulated San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority (MUNI) bus. According to the documents, the software malfunction happens in "certain rare circumstances."
Filed under the NHTSA Campaign Number 23E029000, Cruise said that the ADS software could inaccurately predict the movement of articulated vehicles (buses, tractors, or trailers) in three situations. One is when "the ADS perceived both the front section and rear section of an articulated vehicle initially," while the other is when "the articulated vehicle then maneuvered in such a manner that the rear section of the vehicle fully obstructed the front section of the vehicle."
