Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, June 3rd, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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GM's cruise has secured a permit to charge fares for its driverless robot taxi service in San Francisco,

which will operate from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. on

on select streets quoting Tech Crunch. The California Public Utilities Commission or

CPUC voted Thursday to award Cruz with a driverless

deployment permit the final hurdle the company needed to jump to begin

operating its autonomous ride hail service commercially.

Cruz will be operating its passenger service at a maximum speed of 30 miles per hour,

between the hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. on select streets in San Francisco,

adding another one and a half hours to its current service.

The company will need additional state regulatory approval to charge members of the

public for driverless rides.

In the rest of the city, according to a cruise spokesperson. These preconditions come as part of

cruises passenger safety plan that limits the service to overnight hours and

doesn't include the city's dense urban core according to the CPUC's draft

resolution. Cruz has been offering free driverless rides to San Francisco in its autonomous

Chevrolet bolts between the hours of 1030 p.m. to 5 a.m. since February.

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