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GM's Cruise to deploy fully driverless cars in San Francisco [View all]
Source: Associated Press
GM’s Cruise to deploy fully driverless cars in San Francisco
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
December 9, 2020
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — General Motors’ self-driving car company is sending vehicles without anybody behind the wheel in San Francisco as it navigates its way toward launching a robotic taxi service that would compete against Uber and Lyft in the hometown of the leading ride-hailing services.
The move announced Wednesday by GM-owned Cruise come two months after the company received California’s permission to fully driverless cars in the state.
Like dozens of other companies testing the robotic technology, Cruise’s self-driving cars have been allowed on California public streets for several years with humans poised behind the wheel to take over in an emergency. Now, Cruise is confident enough to send out its self-driving cars without that safety net, instead monitoring from remote locations and, at least initially, having a company employee sitting in the front passenger seat. That employee won’t have access to the same controls as a backup driver and eventually won’t be sitting in front, according to the company.
“You’re seeing fully driverless technology out of the (research and development) phase and into the beginning of the journey to being a real commercial product,” Cruise CEO Dan Amman said Wednesday.
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
December 9, 2020
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — General Motors’ self-driving car company is sending vehicles without anybody behind the wheel in San Francisco as it navigates its way toward launching a robotic taxi service that would compete against Uber and Lyft in the hometown of the leading ride-hailing services.
The move announced Wednesday by GM-owned Cruise come two months after the company received California’s permission to fully driverless cars in the state.
Like dozens of other companies testing the robotic technology, Cruise’s self-driving cars have been allowed on California public streets for several years with humans poised behind the wheel to take over in an emergency. Now, Cruise is confident enough to send out its self-driving cars without that safety net, instead monitoring from remote locations and, at least initially, having a company employee sitting in the front passenger seat. That employee won’t have access to the same controls as a backup driver and eventually won’t be sitting in front, according to the company.
“You’re seeing fully driverless technology out of the (research and development) phase and into the beginning of the journey to being a real commercial product,” Cruise CEO Dan Amman said Wednesday.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/business-san-francisco-robotics-california-driverless-cars-443396a60899a84b96d6f4ba92f5d508
FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2019, file photo, Cruise AV, General Motor's autonomous electric Bolt EV is displayed in Detroit. General Motors' self-driving car company is sending vehicles without anybody behind the wheel in San Francisco as it navigates its way toward launching a robotic taxi service that would compete against Uber and Lyft in the hometown of the leading ride-hailing services. The move announced Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, by GM-owned Cruise come two months after the company received California’s permission to fully driverless cars in the state. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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