Hi everyone I'm Rose Marie Miller here with Sir Ruth Farvar a senior writer here at

Forbes here to tell us about why Cruz Robotaxes halted operations nationwide.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Thank you for having me.

Absolutely.

So first, just give us a brief overview of what happened.

Yeah, so it's been, it's been quite a busy several weeks for Cruz over the last, I would say,

month to two months maybe. But yes, what you're referring to really stems from an

incident that took place not too far from where I am right now. I live in Oakland, California. This incident happened

October 2nd in San Francisco. And at the time, Cruz was running its driverless

cars in San Francisco, picking up passengers,

sort of like a ride hill type service.

And what happened was almost kind of a freak accident.

There was a woman, a pedestrian,

who was hit by a human-driven car and then at shortly after the

moment of impact she was thrown into an adjacent lane and set directly into the

path of a of a cruise car and she was then not only hit by that cruise car but was actually dragged

approximately 20 feet by that

car before it came to a stop. The woman remains in the hospital to this day, more than a month after that incident.

The next day, October 3rd, Cruz officials had meetings with state officials from around here in California, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the California Highway Patrol, and some others.

Ultimately, eventually the California DMV decided to revoke Cruz's operating permit

across the state.

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