Cruz are robotics Back on the road… okay, kind. Although General Motors pulled a plug on his self -driving taxi business last year, the automatic maker has quietly reproduced some vehicles as he is trying to develop new technologies with the help of a driver.
This week, the wired watched GM Bolt Electric Hachback at San Francisco-Okland Brage, and later saw a similar vehicle at Intertt 880 near Auckland. In every example, the car was driven by a human being. But it had the luggage on the roof, such as leather sensors that resemble the cruise ride heling system. The car was written “mint”, but it did not contain any clear cruise branding.
GM spokesman Chetty Sen has confirmed with the wired that the company is really using a limited number of cruise bolt vehicles on selected highways in Michigan, Texas and Bay area to further promote fake models and modern driver relief systems for testing with trained drivers. “They add,” This is an internal test and does not include public passengers. “
He says the GM removed the orange and white cruise logo from the sides of the cars after taking full ownership of the unit in February. Sen says the recent activity began in Michigan and Texas in February and in mid -April in the San Francisco Bay Area area. Cruz named each vehicle in its fleet, and Sen has confirmed that new activists in the Bay area include “mint”.
For the first time, GM has begun to give a second life to a fleet of less than hundreds, which has avoided an expensive project.
GM initially won the majority of the cruise in San Francisco in 2016, and invested more than $ 8 billion in producing robotics service. The operation was at a rapid start and was looking at the rapid extension until October 2023, when a cruise vehicle in San Francisco targeted pedestrians, which was just targeted by a human -powered vehicle.
As a result of the incident, Cruz misled the state regulators, lost an important permit, stopped the operation, and left a quarter of its workers.
After some attempts to resume business, GM announced last December that the experiment would be completely canceled. At that time, GMCCEO Mary Bara told analysts that the robotics fleet had a costly disturbance from the business of making cars.
But the technology behind the cruise is helping to improve the 7 -year -old ancient super cruise system found in some GM cars. The purpose is to help live in drivers and change the lanes, or to put an emergency brake without the need to use their hands.
Many automakers are racing to manufacture cars that offload the increasing amount of driving work to the computer. GM claims that about 60 % of its 360,000 super cruise users regularly use this capacity.
In the United States, the robotics industry has been dominated by Vemo, though Elon Musk’s Tesla and Amazon’s Zox are among those who are trying to catch.
The GM -re -developed Bolt San Francisco Area is mixed in the streets, with heavy duty computer gear cars common to the roof, waist and sides. These include not only sensors and algorithms testing companies, but also data collectors and hobbies also try to upgrade their personal rides.
