GM-owned autonomous driving start-up Cruise plans to offer its robotic taxi service in two more cities.
The startup Cruise is so far mainly in san francisco appeared. There you can book a ride in an autonomous car at certain times and for certain parts of the city. The robot taxi, in which no one else is sitting, transports people for a fee. Now you want to consider two more cities: Phoenix and austin.
In Phoenix, the top dog for autonomous driving, Waymo already active. That’s where the first service of this kind began. In the new cities, you can now put yourself on a waiting list in order to be one of the early birds. As already announced, the service will be offered by the end of the year.
It was originally thought that the rides would initially be free, but now they want to start with a paid service right away. The questionnaire for the waiting list also contains questions about the time of day when one wants to use the service. In San Francisco, Cruise only operates at night. But Waymo’s ministry is to everyone time of day available, so Cruise could do the same. The company still wants to comment on this.