A hot topic in recent months has been the debate and political fight in San Francisco about whether or not to let robotaxis from Waymo and Cruise operate 24/7. I won’t go through all the details of the debate here since I’ve already done that in this article and this … [continued]
One criticism of lidar-using robotaxi startups has long been the limited geographies in which they operate. Waymo started in a corner of Phoenix, and then a corner of San Francisco, and it isn’t much beyond those starting spots still! Cruise Automation, aka Cruise, started in a corner of San Francisco. … [continued]
Startup Strobe says its LIDAR costs 99% less to produce, so General Motors buys it, while taking a swipe at Elon Musk.
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.
