GM recalls driverless cars following San Francisco crash

General Motors on Wednesday announced the recall of its driverless cars in the wake of an October crash in San Francisco.

Cruise, the company's autonomous vehicle division, pointed to the vehicles' software as worsening the Oct. 2 crash after a separate vehicle hit a pedestrian and placed the impacted person in the driverless vehicle's path. The Cruise car then miscategorized the crash and attempted to pull over rather than staying in place, The Hill stated, citing a Cruise report with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Cruise has since launched a voluntary recall to update the software.

"We issued the recall through a 573 NHTSA filing, which is the standard protocol for a company looking to notify consumers of hardware or software safety issues that require a remedy," the company stated. "We have also developed a software update that remedies the issue described and have deployed it to our supervised test fleet, which remains in operation. We’ll deploy the remedy to our driverless fleet prior to resuming those operations."

"Although we determined that a similar collision with a risk of serious injury could have recurred every 10 million - 100 million miles of driving on average prior to the software update, we strive to continually improve and to make these events even rarer," it continued. "As our software improves, it is likely we will file additional recalls to inform both NHTSA and the public of updates to enhance safety across our fleet."

Following the crash, California rescinded permits for Cruise vehicles in San Francisco and imposed additional safety requirements on the company to secure their return.

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