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By Chris Isidore and Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN
NEW YORK — General Motors announced Thursday that it is putting the brakes on its driverless cars, halting a service that provides driverless rides in multiple cities.
The move comes days after California revoked GM’s permits to test and operate fully driverless vehicles on the state’s roads.
The California DMV said the move was due in part to Cruise, GM’s self-driving vehicle technology subsidiary, withholding video and information about a crash in which a pedestrian was dragged by a Cruise vehicle after being struck first by a different hit-and-run driver.
“We have decided to proactively pause driverless operations across all of our fleets while we take time to examine our processes, systems, and tools and reflect on how we can better operate in a way that will earn public trust,” Cruise said late Thursday in a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter.
“This isn’t related to any new on-road incidents,” Cruise said.
“We think it’