After a robotaxi crash in the US, EV company Cruise decides to limit its fleet.

 After a mishap in the US, EV company Cruise has agreed to limit its fleet of robot taxis, San Francisco, August 19 (IANS). After being ordered by US regulators to instantly reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% as a result of one of its electric vehicles colliding with a fire truck, Cruise, a division of General Motors (NYSE:GM), has agreed to downsize its fleet.According to reports on Saturday, Cruise announced that it was halving the size of its San Francisco robotaxi fleet.

In the meantime, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) "reserves the right to suspend or revoke testing and/or deployment permits." The DMV is looking into the Cruise occurrences.

According to TechCrunch, the regulatory body instructed Cruise to limit the number of autonomous vehicles it operates during the day and at night to 150 and 50, respectively.

"The California DMV places a high focus on public safety while traveling. The DMV stated in a statement that the laws' main concerns are the safe operation of autonomous vehicles and the safety of the general public who use the road with these vehicles.

Cruise stated in a blog post that while the investigation is ongoing, "we wanted to provide an update on our preliminary analysis on the incident involving an emergency vehicle colliding with a Cruise AV."

According to the business, "The Cruise AV did identify the risk of a collision and initiated a braking maneuver, reducing its speed, but was ultimately unable to avoid the collision." "We've seen an enormous number of emergency vehicles" over the more than 3 million miles of completely autonomous driving in San Francisco, it continued. "More than 168,000 interactions just in the first seven months of this year alone."

The car manufacturer claimed that because Cruise AVs can recognize emergency sirens, they are better able to navigate past emergency vehicles and surrounding situations in a secure manner.

According to Cruise, the AV in this case recognized the siren as soon as it could be distinguished from the surrounding noise.

Californian officials approved Cruise and Waymo's plans to operate 24/7 commercial robotaxi services in San Francisco last week.