GM revives driverless car program with focus on personal vehicles instead of robotaxis after pausing Cruise operations due to ...

This time around, the project would be focused on autonomous cars for personal use, rather than a robotaxi service.

GM is reigniting its autonomous vehicle efforts by seeking to rehire former employees from its shuttered Cruise unit.

GM is bringing Cruise back to life after its dramatic end. General Motors (GM) has begun reigniting its defunct self-driving ...

GM, which owns about 90% of Cruise, has agreements with other shareholders that will raise its ownership to more than 97% and will pursue the acquisition of the remaining shares.

This dooms Cruise’s robotaxi push and existence as an independent company. In particular, GM plans to combine Cruise with their own teams that are working on autonomous driving technology.

GM CFO Paul Jacobson has said the company expects to spend $1.7 billion on Cruise operations this year, down slightly from GM’s spend on Cruise in previous years of around $2 billion.

GM has never wavered in its support of the company's mission, and earlier this year GM CFO Paul Jacobson said the company expects to spend $1.7 billion on Cruise operations this year, down ...

For GM, that will include slashing spending at Cruise “by hundreds of millions of dollars” in 2024, an action that is expected to result in widespread layoffs at the San Francisco-based ...

GM later reported that they have filed 5 crash reports with NHTSA, but does not believe Super Cruise contributed to the cause of those crashes. GM states customers have driven with the system for ...

Super Cruise is GM’s version of Tesla’s Autopilot or Ford’s BlueCruise. It’s a Level 2 driver assistance system that uses cameras, radars, and sensors to create a 3D map of the environment.

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