Ultimately, Cruise Automation determined that the greater challenge lay in conquering city driving.
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25 Facts About Cruise Automation
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Cruise Automation received a permit to test self-driving vehicle technology from the California Department of Motor Vehicles in June 2015, nine months before it was acquired by GM.
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Industry observers have noted, and GM CEO Mary Barra has stated, that GM allowed Cruise Automation to remain responsible for both technology and commercialization, giving Cruise Automation independence in order to avoid the pitfalls common when a large company acquires a technology startup.
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Cruise Automation initially focused on developing direct-to-consumer kits to retrofit vehicles with limited self-driving capabilities.
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In 2015, Cruise Automation changed its strategy and began writing software to be used for fully self-driving vehicles.
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Since becoming part of General Motors, Cruise Automation has been working on developing software and hardware to make fully autonomous vehicles using a modified Chevy Bolt electric vehicle.
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In May 2018, Cruise Automation announced that SoftBank Vision Fund would invest $2.
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In October 2018, Cruise Automation announced that Honda would be investing $750 million into the company, followed by another $2 billion over the next 12 years.
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In March 2021, Cruise Automation acquired Voyage, a self-driving startup that was spun off of Udacity.
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In September 2021, Cruise Automation received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to provide driverless taxi rides in the state.
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Also in February 2022, Cruise Automation petitioned US regulators for permission to build and deploy a self-driving vehicle without human controls.
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In June 2022, Cruise Automation received California's first Driverless Deployment Permit, allowing it to charge fees for its service.
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However, Cruise Automation shifted its strategy in 2015 to focus on the creation of a fully autonomous vehicle platform rather than a retrofit kit and never released the RP-1.
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Cruise Automation initially purchased Nissan Leaf battery-electric vehicles to test automated driving systems, but these were not tested after December 2016.
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Cruise Automation AV is a Chevy Bolt-based autonomous vehicle; the first generation were modified by Cruise Automation in San Francisco while the subsequent second and third generations are manufactured at the Orion Township assembly plant in Michigan.
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In 2017, Cruise Automation was conducting testing on public roads with Cruise Automation AVs in San Francisco, Scottsdale, Arizona, and the metropolitan Detroit area.
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In early 2017, Cruise Automation released a series of videos showing its self-driving vehicles navigating the streets of San Francisco.
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Cruise Automation announced that future Origin vehicles would be manufactured at GM's Detroit-Hamtramck plant.
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Cruise Automation began testing Cruise Automation AVs without a human safety driver present on the streets of San Francisco in December 2020.
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In May 2021, Cruise Automation announced they expected mass production of the Origin driverless shuttle would commence in 2023.
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In June 2021, Cruise Automation announced it had secured a $5 billion line of credit from General Motors to assist with commercialization and that it had begun assembly of 100 pre-production Origin vehicles for validation testing.
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In February 2022, General Motors and Cruise Automation announced they had petitioned NHTSA for permission to build and deploy the Cruise Automation Origin.
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The Cruise Automation AV had stopped and yielded to the fire truck, but was unable to pull to the right to clear the oncoming lane because of parked cars.
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In June 2022, nearly twenty Cruise Automation AVs blocked traffic for two hours by clustering at the intersection of Gough and Fulton in San Francisco.
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