Self-driving startup Cruise is launching fully driverless testing in San Francisco this year

  • Date: 16-Oct-2020
  • Source: Business Insider
  • Sector:Transport
  • Country:Middle East
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Self-driving startup Cruise is launching fully driverless testing in San Francisco this year

Cruise CEO Dan Ammann said that the self-driving startup would deploy fully self-driving electric vehicles in San Francisco this year.

The vehicles would have no safety driver behind the wheel, as allowed by a newly acquired California DMV permit.

As CEO, Ammann has heralded the end of car ownership and advocated for self-driving ride-hailing as a solution to global warming.

Cruise, acquired by GM in 2016, is now a standalone company valued at $20 billion.

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Cruise CEO Dan Ammann has seen the light, and it turned out to be unsettlingly orange. 

"Like many of you, I looked through my window a few weeks ago and saw climate change up close and personal. No longer subtle or abstract, it was bright orange and everywhere," he wrote in a