Video release of public road test of automatic driving car which General Electric Motors developed

ByDave Pinter

General Motors is an automatic driving car star topAcquired Cruise Automation at 1 billion dollars (about 115 billion yen)It was reported that I did. Unlike Ford · Google · Uber and others who have publicly announced the development status of automatic driving cars in the media, General Motors had not announced the development situation, but Kyle Vogt, the top of Cruise Automation, said that California · The movie of the public road test of General Motors' automatic driving car which was done in San Francisco was announced.

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The movie is a camera taken in the dashboard in the car and photographed in the front, you can see the general car and the automatic driving car running side by side.

2016-11-8 AV Drive (SF) - YouTube


At the beginning of the movie "We used Cruise's mobile app to drive San Francisco city, this is all fully automatic driving" message.


At the bottom left of the screen is the icon "AUTONOMOUS (autonomous operation)" is displayed.


The length of the movie is 2 minutes 26 seconds and it can be confirmed that it is mixed with the general car and riding in the flow of traffic especially without problems.


Automatic driving cars such as Uber,Accident that break through the red lightHowever, it seems that General Motors is clearing this problem.


Practical level automatic operation such as temporarily stopping to wait for left turn is being performed when the car running in front stops halfway through the lane due to cross turn left turn.


The exterior of the car is not shown, but according to General Motors spokesperson, what was used in this movieChevrolet VoltIt is an automated driving car and that. "Cruise's mobile application" that was used for driving is explained as "an application for specifying riding / getting-off points by the technology under development by General Motors".


General Motors has not commented on the development plan for future automated driving cars but will invest 500 million dollars (about 57.4 billion yen) in online dispatch service · Lyft to do the service of automatic driving car at the end of 2015 , So there is a possibility that we are aiming to dispatch an automatic driving taxi like Uber.