'Cruise' officially starts operation of fully autonomous vehicle that does not require driving in San Francisco

In 2013, entrepreneur Kyle Vogt founded 'Cruise ' to realize his long-cherished dream of self-driving cars. This Cruise will finally start offering self-driving car services to the general public in San Francisco, USA.

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Cruise has started offering taxi services using fully autonomous vehicles. The service is provided free of charge at the time of article creation, and it seems that the service will be gradually provided to a small number of users.

Cruise is a self-driving car manufacturer under the umbrella of GM, and has received a $ 2 billion investment from Microsoft. The self-driving car developed by Cruise conducted a test run of 770,000 miles (about 1.24 million km) in 2020, but human operation was required at a rate of 28,520 miles (about 1.24 million km). Once per 45,898km).

The development status of the self-driving car developed by Apple, Waymo, Cruise has been revealed, what is the degree of perfection of the self-driving technology of the three companies? --GIGAZINE

After the completion of such Cruise's self-driving car, Vogt CEO finally got on the fully self-driving car for the first time in San Francisco in November 2021, and the situation is released in the movie.

My first fully driverless pickup! | LONG --YouTube


There is also a movie that summarizes the impressions of users who have experienced Cruise's robot taxi service in advance. All users are excited about the unmanned taxi they took for the first time, but as time passed, the ride became boring and some people fell asleep.

We've opened our doors to the public! --YouTube


On Hacker News, CEO Vogt emphasizes the 'difference from other services' about taxi services using Cruise's fully self-driving cars. 'Our strategy is to solve the challenges needed to deploy an unmanned robotaxi in a well-equipped vehicle, and then aggressively reduce costs. On the other hand, many OEMs follow this order. We're doing the opposite, trying to get high performance out of low-cost hardware, but it's unclear which strategy will win. In the next few years, next-generation low-cost computing and sensing will come. is mounted on a fully automatic operation vehicles, service area geofence if not, can even forget will go wider enough to .OEM still achieve improved performance necessary for a complete driver-less of it there is, how a move would know what was the correct answer is 'a comment we are.

If you would like to use Cruise's fully autonomous vehicle service in San Francisco, you can register from the following page.

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