California suspends Cruise’s autonomous driverless vehicle permits

SAN FRANCISCO — Autonomous car company Cruise must immediately remove all its driverless vehicles from the roads here after the California Department of Motor Vehicles determined Tuesday that the robotaxis are causing an “unreasonable risk” to public safety — a major setback for the company.

This move comes months after state regulators opened an investigation into a spate of “concerning incidents” involving Cruise vehicles in San Francisco and ordered the company to cut its fleet by 50 percent. It also comes several weeks after a jaywalking pedestrian was struck by a regular car and then flung into the path of a Cruise, which rolled over the woman and dragged her for about 20 feet at seven miles per hour, the DMV said.