The start-up Cruise, which works for GM, exceeds the one million mile limit.
Cruise is one of the companies that are at the forefront of autonomous driving and are involved Waymo want to measure. Cruise vehicles have already been operating in San Francisco for 15 months. In that time, Cruise announced, they’ve clocked up over a million miles. Most of this took place in the city san francisco.
Cruise started in the metropolis of San Francisco to plunge straight into the most difficult task: autonomous driving in the city. The top dog Waymo, on the other hand, started in the suburbs of Phoenix. Cruise promised to get more insights into complex driving scenarios, which should encourage improvement.
There are significantly more people in the city and therefore more behavior to interpret. The number of traffic violations is also higher there than in the suburbs. Now they started to use the specially developed robot taxi Origin.
Cruise recently announced that it was ending service on Austin and Chandler in Arizona want to expand. The experiences in San Francisco should help to accelerate the implementation.