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Future Roads Is General Motors’ New Data Platform Project

General Motors has a wealth of technology-driven businesses and growth opportunities on the horizon. Among these is a new data platform project dubbed Future Roads, which promises to deliver critical insights to government agencies.

In a presentation given at the recent GM Investor Day event, General Motors’ vice president of Global Innovation, Pam Fletcher, discussed Future Roads and what it had to offer. Essentially, Future Roads is a software platform that will gather anonymized vehicle data to provide government agencies with “actionable insights” to create safer and better-maintained roads.

General Motors is currently conducting a paid pilot of the Future Roads platform, analyzing things like risk scoring, crash hotspots, and seatbelt usage insights. Following the initial paid pilot, General Motors plans to officially launch and scale the Future Roads platform. Additionally, Fletcher says the platform will likely be given a new name as well.

Additional Future Roads products will be released next year, including things like road weather reporting, pothole locations, road roughness, and more.

“Just to give you an idea of cost savings for customers, their failure to spend $1 in road repair today creates a $7 cost later,” Fletcher said during her recent presentation.

The new Future Roads project is just one of many new General Motors technology-driven products set to launch soon. As GM Authority covered previously, GM is also set to launch OnStar Insurance across all 50 U.S. states by early 2022, providing customers with a use-based insurance service that is based on a wealth of vehicle data, including vehicle usage and driving habits, allowing OnStar Insurance to more accurately assess potential risk factors, as well as provide incentives for safe driving to those customers who deserve them.

“The Global Innovation team’s aim is to provide a constant pipeline of potential new revenue streams drawing on GM core competencies to deliver growth much faster than traditional venture capitalists, or incubator startups,” Fletcher said. “And we’re doing just that.”

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Jonathan is an automotive journalist based out of Southern California. He loves anything and everything on four wheels.

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  1. And here is the real reason for the nickname Government Motors.

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  2. Hmm.So gm wants the corporate tax rate to be higher than the proposal on the table currently.
    Go for it congress,it is free unless your household I mean per person income is greater then 400k or a corporation.
    gm must be one of those corporations that feel that ”so what we will just add the added cost to the MSRP.”.

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  3. I owned a 2017 ZL1 Camaro for 3 years and I checked on purchasing insurance after I was contacted by GM. I was told ineligible for their auto insurance program. I am positive it was due to the “anonymized” information they gathered on my driving habits. 😎
    I did drive the car pretty hard.

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    1. Not a doubt in my mind.

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  4. I doubt you need a new AI to identify where corrupt politicians are spending their road budget on weekend getaways. This should be illegal, as deep down, I bet this is a money laundering scheme. Just ask local first responders. They can tell you yeasterday, last year, heck a decade ago where we need highway improvements. I guess this is how “gm” intends to pay for the Bolt battery fiasco

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  5. Since when did GM think it’s appropriate to volunteer information to government? This is Orwellian.
    “Fascism ought more properly to be called Corporatism, since it is the fusion of state and corporate power.” – Benito Mussolini.

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