What Happened: Cruise announced on Thursday that it is introducing the Cruise Emergency Responder Advisory Council, a group dedicated to enhancing collaboration with public safety professionals.

The council includes the International Association of Fire Chiefs, the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives, the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, the National Sheriffs' Association, OnStar, and the Texas Police Chiefs Association.

These experts in the field of road safety will engage directly with Cruise’s internal teams including engineering, safety, operations, and more to help better the company’s autonomous vehicle product development, and incident and safety processes, the company said.

“Given their expertise, they have meaningful feedback on how autonomous vehicle companies, including Cruise, can improve our operations and interactions with emergency responders in the field. Cruise shares their mission to make roads and communities safer, and know we can and must take their experiences into account as we resume operations,” Cruise said in a statement

Cruise accrued expenses of $400 million in the first quarter as compared to the $800 million in the quarter before. The company said in April that it expects the unit’s full-year expenses to be around $1.7 billion.

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