Self-driving vehicles from GM’s Cruise Automation were involved in a total of 6 auto crashes in California during the month of September, the company has reported to regulators in California.
GM & Cruise Automation now have a design ready for a mass-production self-driving vehicle, the world’s first according to Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt.
The self-driving vehicle startup Cruise has begun operating a “completely autonomous” on-demand taxi service for its employees in San Francisco, according to recent reports.
General Motors makes the Chevy Bolt, a fully electric car. General Motors also has a half billion dollar investment in Lyft, the on-demand taxi service that competes head to head with Uber. In the future, the Chevy Bolt may be the backbone of Lyft’s fleet of autonomous driving cars, and those cars may be 100% powered by renewable energy.
GM is investing $14 million into the development of a new Cruise Automation research and development facility in San Francisco. This investment will be accompanied by the creation of 1,100 new jobs, the company reports.
Detailed statistics on Cruise’s (GM’s) self-driving vehicle testing efforts in California, as provided by the company to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, recently came to my attention (tip of the hat to “Qinsp” on the GM-Volt.com forum). The stats give us a bit more insight into the state of this tech at Cruise/GM.
The CEO of GM’s autonomous driving tech company Cruise Automation, Kyle Vogt, recently posted a video on Twitter of him and GM president Dan Ammann going for a ride in a self-driving Chevy Bolt EV in San Francisco. The video’s pretty interesting.
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