A driverless Cruise robotaxi with no passengers rear-ended a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Muni bus, causing modest damage to the bus and more severe damage to the robotaxi's front bumper, with no injuries reported.
- Date of incident
- 2023-03-24
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Sources
- 3
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This event matches the crash General Motors, LLC reported to NHTSA under the Standing General Order as report 540-5141 (2023-03, San Francisco, CA, crash with bus, no injuries reported). Matched by operator, month, state, city, counterpart and severity; how linking works.
How the event developed
- 2023-03-25Report
A driverless Cruise robotaxi with no passengers rear-ended a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Muni bus, causing modest damage to the bus and more severe damage to the robotaxi's front bumper, with no injuries reported.
teslarati.com - 2023-04-07Follow-up
A Cruise robotaxi collided with a San Francisco Muni articulated bus at approximately 10 mph after a software error caused the vehicle to mispredict the bus's deceleration, resulting in minor damage.
forbes.com - 2023-04-10Recall
A Cruise autonomous robotaxi rear-ended a city bus at approximately 10 MPH in San Francisco due to a software error in predicting the movement of articulated vehicles, prompting a voluntary recall of 300 AVs.
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- teslarati.comA driverless Cruise robotaxi with no passengers rear-ended a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Muni bus, causing modest damage to the bus and more severe damage to the robotaxi's front bumper, with no injuries reported.2023-03-25copy 2026-10-12tier 2
- forbes.comA Cruise robotaxi collided with a San Francisco Muni articulated bus at approximately 10 mph after a software error caused the vehicle to mispredict the bus's deceleration, resulting in minor damage.2023-04-07copy 2026-11-01tier 2
- therobotreport.comA Cruise autonomous robotaxi rear-ended a city bus at approximately 10 MPH in San Francisco due to a software error in predicting the movement of articulated vehicles, prompting a voluntary recall of 300 AVs.2023-04-10copy 2026-10-19tier 2
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