General Motors to retreat from robotaxis and stop funding its Cruise autonomous vehicle unitGeneral Motors is pulling out of the robotaxi business and ceasing funding for its Cruise autonomous vehicle unit due to high costs and inc...
11 Dec, 2024, 06.22 AM IST
Uber to dispatch Waymo's robotaxis in Austin and Atlanta next yearUber's increasing reliance on Waymo's robotaxis to supplement the fleet of cars driven by people responding to requests sent on a mobile ap...
14 Sep, 2024, 08.10 PM IST
US auto safety regulator closes probe into GM's Cruise robotaxisThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it is closing a preliminary evaluation into hard braking issues in General Mot...
22 Aug, 2024, 03.48 PM IST
GM’s Cruise to resume testing its robotaxi service in PhoenixCruise autonomous driving business, under GM, plans to test robotaxis in Phoenix to resume services. Challenges include trust rebuilding po...
09 Apr, 2024, 10.54 AM IST
GM Cruise robotaxi unit names former Ford, Apple exec as safety chiefCruise named Steve Kenner as its chief safety officer, who will oversee Cruise's safety management systems and operations.
13 Feb, 2024, 12.07 PM IST
Driverless cars covered 5x more test miles in California in 2023Driverless vehicles in California traveled 3.3 million miles last year, a fivefold increase from the previous year. General Motors' Cruise ...
03 Feb, 2024, 11.01 AM IST
GM to cut spending by $1 billion on robotaxi unit Cruise in 2024General Motors is cutting spending by about $1 billion on its troubled robotaxi unit Cruise in 2024. Last week, Cruise disclosed probes by ...
31 Jan, 2024, 12.54 PM IST
GM robotaxi unit Cruise offers $75,000 to resolve crash probeIn December, the California Public Utilities Commission ordered Cruise to appear at a Feb. 6 hearing, citing it for misleading the commissi...
07 Jan, 2024, 09.30 AM IST
GM's Cruise robotaxi unit lays off 900 workers amid San Francisco crash probeThe subsidiary announced the cuts Thursday in a letter to Cruise's 3,800 workers from President and Chief Technical Officer Mo ElShenawy, w...
15 Dec, 2023, 12.34 PM IST
GM's Cruise plans small relaunch of driverless robotaxisCruise last week paused all supervised and manual car trips in the United States while also expanding a safety review of its robotaxis, cau...
23 Nov, 2023, 10.22 AM IST
California sidelines GM Cruise's driverless cars, cites safety riskCalifornia has ordered General Motors' Cruise unit to remove its driverless cars from state roads, citing the vehicles as a risk to public ...
25 Oct, 2023, 10.55 AM IST
California regulator probes crashes involving GM's Cruise robotaxisThe statement from California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) came after a Cruise robotaxi was involved in a crash with an emergency veh...
21 Aug, 2023, 03.00 PM IST
California regulator probes crashes involving GM's Cruise robotaxisThe statement from California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) came after a Cruise robotaxi was involved in a crash with an emergency veh...
19 Aug, 2023, 08.56 AM IST
Driverless taxis gain ground in San FranciscoThe California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) heard six hours of public comment before voting three-to-one to let Waymo, a unit of Goog...
12 Aug, 2023, 02.01 PM IST
Two rival robotaxi services win approval to operate throughout San Francisco despite safety concernsThe state's Public Utilities Commission voted to approve rival services from Cruise and Waymo to operate around-the-clock service. It will ...
11 Aug, 2023, 08.10 AM IST
No one is driving this taxi. What possibly could go wrong?The concept does sound good. And the technology to pull it off is advancing steadily, just like other artificial intelligence applications ...
26 Apr, 2023, 12.47 PM IST
GM's self-driving car crashes into bus, automaker recalls 300 robotaxisThe Cruise self-driving software failed to accurately predict the movement of the bus and struck the back after "decelerating too late to a...
08 Apr, 2023, 01.10 PM IST