It’s funny how things line up in the fabric of time at times. A few days ago, I wrote an article about Tesla having perhaps 29 supervised robotaxis in operation in Austin, Texas. It’s not clear what the exact number is, and it’s not clear exactly how many crashes these … [continued]
Cruise, the robotaxi arm of General Motors, will be shut down and its operations folded into self driving technology for cars and trucks.
General Motors (GM) CEO Mary Barra admitted earlier this year that the company faltered in 3 important areas in 2023: manufacturing electric vehicles (EVs), addressing software issues, and making sense of its self-driving division called Cruise. The last area of concern has reared its ugly head again, as the autonomous … [continued]
Checking out the Friday critique of “Tesla’s $9 Trillion Robotaxi Dreams” on Seeking Alpha that Carolyn Fortuna just covered, a few things jumped out to me. A few things seem to be missed, misunderstood, or even misleading from the analysts. But, then again, that doesn’t mean the ARK analysis is … [continued]
If you’ve been following autonomous vehicle development, you’ve probably come across this chart that tries to compare the systems (which the poster on X/Twitter was re-using as a joke, so don’t go heckle him!). It was seriously posted by the people mentioned in this article, though. Using vague descriptions like … [continued]
It’s hard to know what is going to come in the autonomous driving world in the next few years, or next decade. Waymo — spun out of Google — has been working on the topic for a couple of decades. I recall seeing a Google self-driving vehicle on the roads … [continued]
For this weekly newsletter, I’m highlighting 11 core stories that I think stand out above the rest. We cover so much cleantech news that it can be very hard to distill or narrow down to the most important stories of the week, but the following 11 seem extra noteworthy and … [continued]
We’ve been discussing Cruise and robotaxis for weeks following the unfortunate death of a pedestrian in San Francisco. It was a pedestrian who was first hit by a car next to a Cruise robotaxi, but we still don’t know if the person died on the first impact or after the … [continued]
As we’ve written about recently, GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle and robotaxi division is in crisis. After a particularly nasty crash involving one of its vehicles and a pedestrian, the company lost its license to run robotaxis in California and has since put production of its next-generation vehicles on hold. Since … [continued]
GM’s Cruise division, which focuses on autonomous vehicles, has been having a tough time lately. After a series of accidents, California’s regulators snagged the company’s license to operate robotaxis without test drivers. Then, the company’s brass decided it was best to go ahead and halt all robotaxi operations while the … [continued]
