(Reuters) - General Motors' self-driving unit Cruise said on Thursday it will begin supervised testing with up to five autonomous vehicles in fall this year in California's Bay Area.

Cruise, the self-driving vehicle unit of General Motors Co., plans to resume driving robotaxis in California this fall for the first time since a pedestrian accident led to its license being suspended in October.

Nearly a year after a Cruise driverless vehicle was involved in an accident in which a pedestrian was dragged, the autonomous vehicle company announced it would be resuming testing on Bay Area streets.

General Motors’ (NYSE:GM) autonomous vehicle division, Cruise, will deploy manual mapping vehicles in the San Francisco Bay Area, progressing to supervised testing with up to five autonomous vehicles later in the fall,