Cruise is robotaxis Back on the road … well, like. Although General Motors pulled the plug Last year, on its self-driving taxi business, the automekar is quietly preparing some vehicles as it wants to develop new driver-help technologies.
This week, Wired saw a GM bolt electric hatchback on the San Francisco-Ocland Bay Bridge, and later saw a similar vehicle on the interstate 880 near Okland. In each example, the car was being powered by a human being. But it held Equipment on roof For example, the lidar sensor which was similar to the setup from the cruise ride-lingering system. The vehicle had “mint” written on the hood, but it did not include no visually clear cruise branding.
GM spokesperson Chaiti Sen confirmed Wired that the company is actually using a limited number of cruise bolt vehicles on select highways in Michigan, Texas, and the simulation model and the simulation model and the advanced driver aid system and the bear area for testing with trained drivers to develop the support system. “She says,” this is an internal test and does not include public travelers. “
GM removed the orange and white cruise people from the edges of cars wholly owned She says from the unit in February. The recent activity began in Michigan and Texas in February and in the mid -April in San Francisco Gulf region, saying Sen says. Cruise nominated each vehicle in its fleet, and Sen confirmed that the “Mint” had been one of the new active vehicles in the Gulf region.
The test first shows how GM is starting to give a second life to a fleet of a fleet of no less than an expensive project that was from an expensive project.
GM initially won a majority stake in the Cruise in San Francisco in 2016, and invested over $ 8 billion in developing a robotaxi service. The operation was closed to a rapid start and rapid expansion by October 2023, when a cruise vehicle hit a pedestrian in San Francisco, colliding with just a human-powered vehicle.
After the incident, cruise Misguided state regulatory, Lost a major permit, Block operationAnd Close a quarter of your workers,
after Some attempts to resume businessGM announced last December that the experiment would be completely canceled. At that time, GM CEO Mary Barra told analysts that there was an expensive distraction from the business of making a car by running a robotaxi fleet.
But the technique behind the cruise is helping to improve the age of almost seven years. Super cruise system Some GM was found in cars. Its purpose is to help the drivers stay and change in lanes, or apply emergency brakes without the need to use their hands.
Many automaker are running to develop cars that load in increasing quantities Driving on computerGM claims that about 60 percent of its 360,000 super cruise customers use regular capacity.
In America, the robotaxi industry has dominated VemoAlthough Elon Musk’s Tesla And Amazon’s Zox Among those who are trying to catch.
GM’s renovated bolts mix into the San Francisco-region streets, on which the roof, back and sides have become common cars with heavy-duty computer gear. They not only include companies testing sensors and algorithms, but also include map providers collecting data and hobbies trying to upgrade their individual rides.
