After autonomous vehicle company Cruise lost its operating license in California last year due to safety concerns, it will soon partner with Uber to offer driverless transportation through the popular ride-sharing app.

Cruise and Uber announced a Multi-year partnership This is set to begin in 2025 and will allow Uber customers to select a driverless Cruise vehicle for certain trips. The partnership is set to begin in a single, unspecified city and will be based on autonomous vehicles based on the Chevy Bolt.

Cruise left his entire fleet in October after California regulators revoked the company’s license to offer driverless rides, citing its mishandling of a safety incident in which a pedestrian in San Francisco was struck and dragged by a Cruise vehicle.

The pedestrian, who was lying on the road after being hit by a car with a driver, was taken under a Cruise vehicle and hospitalized with injuries. In 2018, an Uber self-driving vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona, prompting the company to suspend its driverless program in several cities.

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Driverless Cruise vehicles remain banned in California, but autonomous cars from Google-owned Waymo serve customers in San Francisco. Waymo is expanding into cities around the Bay Area and Southern California, the Associated Press reported, and said its robotaxis are completing more than 100,000 paid rides per week. Both Cruise and Uber are based in San Francisco.

Cruise was founded in 2013 and is owned by General Motors. The company offers rides with a driver in Phoenix, Houston and Dallas. The partnership with Uber will likely start in one of these cities, the company said. The company will rely on autonomous vehicles without drivers.

“Cruise is committed to using driverless technology to create safer streets and redefine urban life,” Cruise CEO Marc Whitten said in a statement announcing the partnership. “We are excited to partner with Uber to bring the benefits of safe, reliable, autonomous driving to even more people.”

Whitten took over the company after founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigned following the suspension of its California license. The partnership with Uber is the company’s latest move under Whitten to regain public trust and build a reliable revenue stream.

GM did not make any money from Cruise, but instead made losses of $5.8 billion from 2021 to 2023 on the robotaxi service, according to the AP. The automaker had an operating loss of $900 million on Cruise in the first half of this year.

Despite financial problems and security flaws, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said his company was pleased about the partnership.

“We believe Uber can play an important role in safely and reliably introducing autonomous technology to consumers and cities around the world,” Khosrowshahi said in a statement.

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This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.