Cruise is now testing fully driverless cars in San Francisco
Photo by Andrej Sokolow / picture alliance via Getty Images Cruise, the self-driving car company affiliated with General Motors and Honda, is testing fully driverless cars, without a human safety driver behind the steering wheel, in San Francisco. The company is among the first to test its driverless vehicles in a dense, complex urban environment.
Getting to driverless in SF took more than five years of rigorous testing, over 2 million miles of driving in one of the craziest driving environments, together with hard work from a huge team of dedicated engineers and others across Cruise, as well as at GM," Cruise CEO Dan Ammann said in a call with reporters. And not to mention several billion dollars of investment along the way."
To be sure, the vehicles are not completely alone...