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A map of Cruise’s expanded service space in Phoenix. | Supply: Cruise

Cruise has just lately enormously expanded its service space in Phoenix, AZ, with its new service space being 20 occasions the scale of its earlier service space. 

The brand new service space will first be obtainable to Cruise’s “energy customers” and a few family and friends, however ultimately the corporate will open it as much as members of the general public. Cruise’s new service space will cowl Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, and a part of the town of Phoenix. 

Simply weeks in the past, Kyle Vogt, the co-founder and CEO of Cruise, introduced that Cruise autos might be heading to Nashville. Nashville will change into the seventh metropolis that the corporate has began operations in. 

Cruise’s journey began in San Francisco, and since then the corporate has deployed its robotaxis in Phoenix and Austin, and has began operations in Houston, Dallas, and Miami. In keeping with Vogt, we are able to count on to start out seeing Cruise robotaxis in Nashville throughout the subsequent few months. 

The corporate’s technique for rolling out its robotaxi service has been to start out in probably the most difficult locations, like San Francisco which is infamous for heavy site visitors, steep hills, and intense fog, after which apply what it has realized to different cities. 

Whereas Cruise has had a lot success in rolling out its robotaxi companies, it hasn’t been with out challenges. Earlier this 12 months, the corporate issued a voluntary recall of 300 Cruise autos with the Nationwide Freeway Transportation Security Administration (NHTSA). The recall was in response to a minor collision the place a Cruise robotaxi hit the again of a San Francisco bus.