by Randall McAdory | Apr 28, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Elon Musk, Ford, GM Cruise Automation, TaaS, Tesla
I believe Tesla is leading the world in a race to develop the technology enabling mobility solutions using self-driving vehicle capability as outlined in this Medium article, Tesla’s Insurmountable Advantages. However, in an interview this week with Automotive...
by Randall McAdory | Mar 27, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, General Motors, GM Cruise Automation
Yesterday’s announcement from General Motors cutting white collar salaries and freezing work on some vehicle programs due to coronavirus, also highlighted a few less than immediately profitable programs where engineering development will not be delayed....
by Randall McAdory | Feb 27, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, GM Cruise Automation
Automotive News is reporting (subscription required) that GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle subsidiary can begin testing in California with passengers. It seems as though GM is getting close to launching a robotaxi service after last year’s delay announcement...
by Randall McAdory | Jan 23, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, GM Cruise Automation
The follow-up to this week’s earlier post culminates in the announcement of the GM Cruise driverless, electric vehicle called Origin. Cruise CEO, Dan Ammann, describes Origin as being autonomous, electric, shared and a production vehicle. When actual production...
by Randall McAdory | Jan 21, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, GM Cruise Automation
Last week I speculated that GM Cruise Automation was close to announcing a robotaxi service given the company announcement of hiring their first chief communications officer, Kristine Boyden. Well, it seems that the Cruise announcement later today is one where the...
by Randall McAdory | Jan 20, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, GM Cruise Automation, Mobileye, Waymo
In a recent post, I described how Intel subsidiary, Mobileye, showcased a self-driving vehicle equipped with only cameras traversing the streets of Jerusalem during CES this year. Is Mobileye about to take on Waymo in the rotbotaxi service game? Mobileye’s CEO, Annan...
