Exclusive look at Cruise’s first fully driverless car

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Published 2020-01-21
Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, revealed its first vehicle to operate without a human driver, the Cruise Origin. The vehicle, which lacks a steering wheel and pedals, is designed to be more spacious and passenger-friendly than typical self-driving cars. Cruise says the electric vehicle will be deployed as part of a ride-hailing service, but declined to say when that might be.

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All Comments (21)
  • @TheVerge
    Would you ride in a car without a steering wheel?
  • It's all fun and games until that 6 seating with enormous leg room becomes a 12 seater with less room that an airplane seat.
  • @B-RaDD
    The government only grants 2500 exemptions per year.....🤔🤔 Gee I wonder why electric or autonomous vehicles aren't taking off yet...*coughs OIL COMPANIES
  • @kyleman1313
    I would love to take a ride in one of these things for a long road trip, maybe 150-200 miles or more. Would be nice to just sit and relax while the car drives me to my destination.
  • @CSHarvey
    Looking forward to subscribing to Transportation as a Service in a few years for my daily commute.
  • @shanetom3387
    I remember seeing this in a magazine in 2011 or 2012 and they said it would be a new york city taxi introduced in 2013 but i don’t think it was driverless
  • @SRGm8
    All these companies don’t seem to understand that the solution is not throwing a different kind of vehicle out there. This will still cause traffic jams, it’ll still contaminate heavily (yes, most electricity is not green-generated), and so on. I used to leave in the south of Sweden and they move everywhere by ultra-modern trains, trams, and ultimately bicycles towards your final destination. Heck, even the train stations store thousands of bicycles in special parkings. I feel that they really have nailed down the problem of transportation, and that other countries must copy that system. All these autonomous cars solutions feel to me already dated, as there’s no need for them in a modern society. This is my opinion, of course.
  • A heads up that Uber is currently lobbying government to ban private ownership of vehicles so they can buy companies like this and your only option is to use their services.
  • @Atomic361
    I'm usually pretty sceptical but this looks super promising
  • @HeyCharlieBrown
    Well Andrew Yang was right, Goodbye Uber drivers you guys had a good run
  • I thought about this vehicle like 5 years ago, but this carriage style version would be the private one. The ride sharing version would have 3 rows, with 2 seats each, and they would be all pointed to the same direction. It would have one door for each seat, and perhaps some separation between seats to give people more privacy.
  • @matty5518
    First is not always best, you could be paving the road for a competitor. That said, I like the innovation here, kudos.
  • @CRF250R1521
    Is this how Johnny Cab started ?!? From Total Recall??
  • @johnesco
    Never thought this would come to fruition. Now I have seen these on the streets of mt city. Waiting to come up on a waiting list and try this out.
  • @Samborondon11
    Damn, I thought about this in 2014, happy to see it become a possibility.
  • @JamilElChoueiry
    dang and i am in lebanon protesting to have proper public transportation as any decent country on this planet , dang its like watching star wars :P:P
  • Yeah whoooooo self driving!!!!! I have been waiting for this since I was 14 years old