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The American intercity bus network isn't what it once was, and the effects of its decline can already be felt in major cities. As ridership declines, the widespread closure of bus stations threatens to have a ripple effect that could dump travelers to linger on sidewalks. Or, in some cases, leave them without means to leave their cities to begin with.
Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving development subsidiary, will lay off almost a quarter of its workforce—about 900 employees—the company announced Thursday. The cuts are part of a broader restructuring to focus the robotaxi unit on a narrower path to commercialization. Instead of expanding its commercial robotaxi service to multiple US cities, the company will relaunch its currently paused service in just one.
In 2023, it sometimes feels as if we're living in the future. The use of artificial intelligence has exploded with the proliferation of services like ChatGPT (don't worry, this article was written by a real human), Apple launched its Vision Pro mixed-reality headset, and the LED-covered Sphere in Las Vegas is taking entertainment (and advertising) to new heights. But some aspects of the future are much further away than we thought. Take driverless cars, which some executives—who may or may not be named Elon Musk—have been promising are just around the corner for nearly a decade. Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors, unveiled its driverless pod, the Origin, in 2020 and claimed production would begin this year. But a series of mishaps for Cruise's fleet of self-driving Chevrolet Bolt EV prototypes have not only prevented the start of Origin production, but have also set ba
General Motors-owned robo-taxi giant Cruise has announced it will suspend all operations in the US, with multiple investigations currently assessing the safety of its autonomous cars.
The largest operator of ‘robo-taxis’ in the US has suspended operating its driverless autonomous vehicles across the country and paused production of a dedicated ‘self-driving’ shuttle, following safety concerns and investigations due to numerous incidents.
Until a few years ago, driverless trucks seemed like something out of sci fi film set in the year 2050. Even when robotaxis began crowding San Francisco, the concept of self-driving trucks still seemed fairly distant, if only because the bureaucratic hurdles necessary to make something like that happen seemed more insurmountable than setting robotaxis loose in the confines of the Bay Area, even as Gatik's «middle mile» trucks performed real cargo runs in Kansas. But it appears we are now just months away from self-driving semitrucks hitting the road. And they will even have their own special lanes. Aurora Innovation says it has opened the first driverless truck lane between Dallas and Houston, in one of the busiest commercial routes in the
GM Cruise vehicles off the streets in Austin, Texas. (Getty Images)
Cruise has paused all its driverless operations, the company has announced on LinkedIn and X. The GM-backed self-driving firm explained that it's taking time to examine its «processes, systems and tools» and that it will «reflect on how [it] can better operate in a way that will earn public trust.» Cruise has been thrust under the spotlight recently after the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) suspended its permits to operate driverless vehicles in the state due to several safety related issues. The California Public Utilities Commission also suspended the license giving Cruise the right to charge passengers for robotaxi rides.