Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:31:59 +0000
Cruise, the robotaxi arm of General Motors, will be shut down and its operations folded into self driving technology for cars and trucks.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:55:59 +0000
General Motors (GM) CEO Mary Barra admitted earlier this year that the company faltered in 3 important areas in 2023: manufacturing electric vehicles (EVs), addressing software issues, and making sense of its self-driving division called Cruise. The last area of concern has reared its ugly head again, as the autonomous … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 14:31:30 +0000
Checking out the Friday critique of “Tesla’s $9 Trillion Robotaxi Dreams” on Seeking Alpha that Carolyn Fortuna just covered, a few things jumped out to me. A few things seem to be missed, misunderstood, or even misleading from the analysts. But, then again, that doesn’t mean the ARK analysis is … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:24:18 +0000
For this weekly newsletter, I’m highlighting 11 core stories that I think stand out above the rest. We cover so … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 08:29:00 +0000
We’ve been discussing Cruise and robotaxis for weeks following the unfortunate death of a pedestrian in San Francisco. It was … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 04:49:33 +0000
As we’ve written about recently, GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle and robotaxi division is in crisis. After a particularly nasty crash … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 00:29:24 +0000
Cruise has slowly been expanding its network of robotaxis and their availability in certain markets. Though, it’s been a long time since the company entered new cities … until now. Cruise is now coming to Houston and Dallas. While Cruise vehicles will be fully self driving and operate even without safety drivers in other markets, […]
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:30:32 +0000
GM’s Robotaxi Service Starts Work in Tesla’s Back Yard
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 03:57:19 +0000
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. Cruise, however, has just expanded […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 17:48:17 +0000
I saw many takes on Tesla AI Day 2022 that fell into a couple of main buckets. Those were mostly about the robot, Optimus, and we’ve published articles covering that at length. However, I stumbled across some critiques of the FSD Beta portion of the presentation that I found surprising and interesting. These mostly came […]