Self-driving car company Cruise agreed to reduce its driverless fleet by 50% after a spate of recent crashes. San Francisco officials previously pushed for a slower rollout of robotaxis.

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Self-driving car company Cruise agreed to reduce its driverless fleet by 50% after a spate of recent crashes. San Francisco officials previously pushed for a slower rollout of robotaxis.
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City officials previously raised concerns that San Francisco was not prepared to handle a large expansion of robotaxis on its streets.

A day after the state regulators' approval,The company said SF's Outside Lands Music Festival "posed wireless bandwidth constraints causing delayed connectivity to our vehicles."On Thursday, two Cruise robotaxis were involved in separate collision incidents, one of which occurred while a passenger was inside the vehicle.

Another collision occurred that evening, in which another vehicle ran a red light "at a high rate of speed," the company told Insider. Tilly Chang, executive director of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority , previously told Insider that her agency believes approving the permits would be "premature."

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