Forget those Tesla crashes: GM says you can trust its autonomous vehicles
by Andrew J. Hawkins from The Verge - All Posts on (#62567)
General Motors is racing to electrify its vast lineup of vehicles in a concerted bid to outpace Tesla as the No. 1 seller of EVs in the world. But it's also competing with Tesla on a whole other front: autonomous vehicles.
On this front, GM feels like it has an edge. It's hands-free advanced driver-assist system, Super Cruise, will double its coverage area to 400,000 miles of highways and routes later this year. Next year, the automaker will unveil the next iteration, Ultra Cruise, which GM has said will cover 95 percent" of driving tasks. And its robotaxi division, Cruise, is currently picking up and dropping off passengers in San Francisco as part of the city's first real commercial autonomous ridehail service.
But at present,...