GM dumps Cruise robotaxi plans; shifts autonomy work to personal cars
The company made the announcement late Tuesday afternoon, with GM spokesman Kevin Kelly telling the Detroit Free Press that GM sees a better business opportunity with personal vehicle autonomy rather than building a robotaxi fleet with its San Francisco ...
General Motors Says It’s Pulling Cruise Out of the Robotaxi Business
Automotive giant General Motors announced Tuesday that it would be pulling funding from its robotaxi firm Cruise, though it gestured at future plans to continue developing self-driving cars.
GM Halts Cruise’s Robotaxi Development
In light of such difficult economics, what made robotaxi the dominant go-to-market strategy for autonomous vehicles? To understand the reasons why, let’s consider the history of AVs. The idea of autonomous vehicles has been around for decades.
GM's Cruise exit turns focus on challenges of scaling robotaxis
General Motors' decision to pull the plug on its troubled Cruise robotaxi business highlights the harsh reality facing others still in the race: it requires a long-term commitment to perfect the technology and deep pockets to fund it.
GM halts funding for Cruise robotaxi program
General Motors’ move Tuesday to halt funding for its Cruise robotaxi program makes way for Silicon Valley rivals to take a firmer hold of the potentially multibillion-dollar business. But experts say bowing out is the right choice for the embattled Cruise.
GM is killing Cruise robotaxis
General Motors is officially ending its support for Crusie’s beleaguered fleet of self-driving “robotaxis.” In a surprise announcement this week, the US carmaker said it will “realign its autonomous driving strategy” to end robotaxis and instead focus on eventually creating an autonomous personal vehicle.
GM shifts focus of Cruise autonomos driving from robotaxis to personal vehicles
General Motors said on Tuesday it will no longer individually fund its Cruise autonomous robotaxi division, instead folding it into its broader tech team.
A Waymo robotaxi got stuck in a roundabout loop
Roundabouts. They trapped Clark Griswold in National Lampoon's European Vacation and now they've tripped up a Waymo robotaxi.
GM Ends Cruise Robotaxi Efforts and Steers Its Self-Driving Tech to Passenger Cars
The Detroit auto giant says it’s halting its investment in Cruise’s robotaxi project at $4.4 billion, and integrating its ...
Tesla just lost one of its key autopilot execs to an Amazon-backed robotaxi rival
Zheng Gao, an eight-year veteran at the Elon Musk-run automaker, is departing for rival robotaxi builder Zoox, the company ...
RIP, Cruise robotaxi
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GM Pulls The Plug On Its Multibillion-Dollar Robotaxi Bet
The automaker is folding Cruise, its San Francisco-based subsidiary, into its in-house efforts to develop autonomous driving ...
Cruise founder calls GM 'a bunch of dummies' after automaker shuts down robotaxi startup
The Cruise founder Kyle Vogt, who resigned from the company in 2023 after a suspension of its robotaxi business, wasn't happy ...
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Would you trust a driverless robotaxi? Waymo hopes so.
Reporters at Wired spent a day chasing a driverless taxi across San Francisco, and spoke with some of the Waymo's passengers.
GM scraps Cruise's robotaxi service
GM announced Tuesday that it would no longer be using Cruise LLC funding for developing a robotaxi service, citing increased ...
GM's Cruise robotaxi exit a result of 'serious problems' from scaling too fast and continued high costs
General Motors pulled the plug on its Cruise robotaxi business on Tuesday night, a move marking a dramatic step back in its ...
Microsoft will take an $800M hit over Cruise robotaxi shutdown
GM's decision to shut down its Cruise robotaxi program continues to ripple through the market, extending to the self-driving ...