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General Motors will restart the work on the program without a driver without vehicles, a year after the production of the production of the Cruise Origin Robotaxi when someone hit a woman about 20 feet and dragged a woman.
“We accelerate the development of autonomous driving technology that can operate without active human supervision, including building a team of autonomy experts,” the company said. “Our fleet equipped by Lidar is nationwide kilometers throughout the country, with trained safety drivers, which capture insight into practice to build simulation models that will guide development.”
Bloomberg reported that sources that are familiar with the company’s plans said that GM would focus on developing cars without a driver for personal use rather than for a robotaxi service.
GM pauses the autonomous vehicle of cruise origin for an indefinite period of time while the unit focuses again
A cruise, a robot taxi without a driver, will be seen on July 24, 2023 during the operation in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Allegedly the sources also told the media company that should be the first steps to develop hands -free and eyes -free driving with a person in the vehicle, but in the end the company is working on a car that can drive without anyone behind the wheel.
Sterling Anderson, who previously worked at Tesla as the Autopilot Chief and this year came to GM, reportedly spoke to during a private meeting with employees on August 6, when he outlined the plans.
He said during the meeting that autonomy is the future, and added that GM will try to build a team of former cruise staff and new staff to work on the upcoming initiative, the sources reportedly told Bloomberg.
Analysis shows how GMs Cruise Robotaxi hit and dragged 20 feet for pedestrians
The head office of the General Motors World Headquarters can be seen in the Renaissance Center of Detroit. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/Lighttrocket via Getty Images/Getty Images)
GM left the plans last year to produce its autonomous Cab Cruise -Oorsprong for an indefinite period of time, because it re -concentrated the efforts on the troubled unity.
GM CEO Mary Barra told shareholders in July 2024 that the automaker “would simplify their path to scale by concentrating their next autonomous vehicle on the next generation Chevrolet Bolt, instead of the origin”, which was confronted with regulatory uncertainty because of the unique design.
Barra also noted that costs per unit will also be much lower for the Chevrolet Bolt, so that the company can “optimize its resources”.
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Mary Barra said last year that General Motors would concentrate on the Chevrolet Bolt for autonomous possibilities, instead of Cruise Origin. (Dia Dipasupil / Getty image / getty -images)
The American car company had announced in January 2024 that it was planning to lower the spending for the cruise in two or by around $ 1 billion because it launched the unit again after the incident of the previous year.
According to an analysis commissioned by GM, a series of technical failures was to blame for a crash in October 2023 in which a woman was beaten and towed by a cruise robotaxi for 20 feet.
It marked a major setback for the entire autonomous vehicle industry when the company paused its activities without a director and various managers were rejected.
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The crash also led to an investigation by the Ministry of Justice.
