GM’s autonomous vehicle division, Cruise, just announced that it is now testing its driverless robotaxis in the city of Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville is the latest city to host the Cruise AVs as the company expands its services to major metropolitan areas across the U.S.
In a recent tweet, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt announced that the company is now testing units of its fully autonomous Chevy Bolt EV in Nashville, stating that the latest expansion brings the number of cities where Cruise is now operating from one to seven over the course of just one year. In addition, the company currently has roughly 400 driverless vehicles on the road.
Today we are announcing Nashville 🎸as our next robotaxi-enabled city!
You’ll see driverless @cruise AVs there in a few months.
This brings us from 1 city to 7 in about a year – and there are still more to come…
Here’s how👇(1/9)
— Kyle Vogt (@kvogt) July 27, 2023
Just last month, Cruise said it was also starting the initial testing phase for its autonomous vehicles in Miami, Florida, while further efforts are being made in Phoenix, Arizona, as well as several cities in Texas, including Austin, Dallas, and Houston. Cruise initially began public autonomous vehicle testing in San Francisco, California.
Cruise recently celebrated surpassing 3 million driverless miles traveled, with the rate at which the company accumulates similar milestones expected to accelerate as its efforts expand across the U.S.
The company is now waiting on approval from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to deploy a fleet of Cruise Origin AVs on public roads. Unlike the Cruise Chevy Bolt EVs currently in use, the Cruise Origin was purpose-built as an autonomous vehicle, and is not equipped with human controls. As such, the NHTSA will decide if a vehicle built to be driven exclusively by computers must comply with the same safety standards as human-piloted vehicles with regard to requirements for things like a steering wheel, mirrors, windshield wipers, and similar equipment.
In December of 2022, the NHTSA opened a safety probe into Cruise AVs, finding that some Cruise vehicles could “engage in inappropriately hard braking or become immobilized.” Critics state that autonomous vehicle technology is not ready for public use, with some citing incidents where Cruise AVs have interfered with emergency vehicles.
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Come to New York City you wussies.
Why? Another example of a “fix” looking for a problem.
This is a huge waste of money.
Great news. The more data acquired from these initial trials, the safer they will become. Welcome to the future!
These things are nothing more than taxi cabs without a driver. People are not excited by taxi cabs. Why? All taxi cabs are ultimately dirty and disgusting. These things on the road long enough will be dirty and disgusting too. Welcome to the future? Not really. It’s the same old, same old without a driver.
Cheaper transportation, no driver.
No driver, no one to control the drone when it malfunctions, or nobody to stop crimes and other shenanigans on board, nobody to keep the vehicle from being trashed for the next person.
Lol 😂, so you don’t think there are cameras in these things. Everything you do in them is monitored.
Another reason not to use one of these things. What happened to privacy?
Id want to know if the guy in the car before me was wackin his carrot. The cameras would catch that and make him pay for cleaning the car. Do you have privacy if someone is driving the car? You can’t have it both ways.
I usually know the person driving the car I’m in.
You can’t make a person pay a cleaning bill. Cruise taking a patron to court to pay for semin removal would cost more in court fees and time then its worth.
Nah, you use a credit card to purchase a ride. If you book a ride through Uber or any other ride-sharing service that contract states that you pay for any damage to the property. They just deduct it from your credit card. The same thing happens if you damage a hotel room.
Mobile porta potties 🤣
If this is all we have to look forward to for the future, it truly is hopeless.
EVs and AVs are here and will increase in numbers quickly. Globally. EV/AVs will change the world. Resistance is futile, short-sighted, and just plain ridiculous. And for those who can afford it, there will be private AVs for personal use.
We’re present at creation of a huge revolution in transportation. Amazing to watch….
They said something along the lines of this in the 1960s when they predicted a man will land on Mars by the end of the decade. Still waiting……
You don’t seem to like taxis – dirty, disgusting, etc. So in your world if you don’t own a car, you can’t go anywhere. Well, it seems to me the taxi industry, and Uber/Lift, seem to be doing quite well, and an automated taxi service is a big step-up by being both cheaper and safer. Yes, cheaper (no driver) and safer – yes, GM has the hard data to PROVES that Cruise is safer than a human driver.
EVs and AV EVs are the future, and it has arrived, and EV AVs will change the world in so many beneficial ways. (!!!!).
The times I rode in taxis they were relatively clean because there was a driver to make sure the vehicle is not trashed.
As far as safety is concerned I’m an adult and I’ll take my chances. Life is full of risks but I’ll take that chance in order to enjoy and
use-at will the clean, comfortable, readily available vehicles that I own and drive myself.
Yep, it’s going to happen. Some people are resistant to change. As time goes on they will come around. The guy that rode a horse at the turn of the century eventually drove a car.
More like depressing to watch