Cruise deployed a small fleet of vehicles with drivers to map two South Bay Cities. This comes nearly a year after the company’s driverless fleet was pulled by state regulators, accused of trying to mislead them about their safety record.

But the General Motors-owned company said the move is intended as a step toward restarting its robotaxi service in the Bay Area. It’s not clear when Cruise be able to resume offering rides in San Francisco; the company would first need to get the sign-off from a pair or state agencies.

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,

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.