GM pulling the plug on Cruise's robotaxi experiment in favor of “privately owned” driverless cars is the beginning of a risky new phase for autonomous vehicles
Eight years and $10 billion later, GM has decided to pull the plug on its grand robotaxi experiment.
GM says Cruise restarted test operations in three US cities after a vehicle dragged a pedestrian in October 2023, and suspends developing its Cruise Origin cab
General Motors said the self-driving division's cars will operate in Dallas, Houston and Phoenix after an accident last year.
Cruise resumes manually driving its vehicles without autonomous systems engaged to create maps and gather road information in select cities, starting in Phoenix
Sources: Cruise plans to resume its robotaxi service with safety drivers in Phoenix as early as April 9; Cruise says it “had not set a timeline for deployment”
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Sources: Apple pivots to a less ambitious design for its upcoming EV, from Level 4 autonomy to Level 2+, and pushes back its launch from 2026 to 2028 or later
and it doesn't sound like the self-driving car of the future Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Apple reportedly switches to less ambitious development roadmap for its electric car Nadeem Sarwar / Slash...
Cruise recalls all 950 of its autonomous cars to update their software after one dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street on October 2
General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update software after one of them dragged a pedestrian …
Some Cruise riders say they've had sex in the driverless cars in San Francisco over recent months; Waymo and Cruise permit users to eat, but not drink alcohol
An Illustration generated by the artificial intelligence program Midjourney depicts two people making out in an autonomous vehicle.
After a contentious public hearing, the California Public Utilities Commission allows Waymo and Cruise to operate driverless cabs 24/7 throughout San Francisco
prompting a vow from angry residents to continue staging traffic cone protests Nadia Bidarian / CNN : Regulators give green light to driverless taxis in San Francisco Shannon Connellan / Mashable : Ro...
Some Cruise car riders say they've had sex in the driverless vehicles in SF over recent months; Waymo and Cruise permit eating in their cars but not drinking
An Illustration generated by the artificial intelligence program Midjourney depicts two people making out in an autonomous vehicle.
GM's Cruise says it is now operating its “small” fleet of driverless robotaxis in San Francisco 24/7, expanding to daylight hours; the unit lost $561M in the Q1
Cruise, the autonomous vehicle division of General Motors, is now operating a “small” fleet of driverless robotaxis …