Cruise, a self-driving car company, plans to start offering driverless rides in Austin by the end of the year. | Lamor_1217
Cruise, a self-driving car company, plans to start offering driverless rides in Austin by the end of the year.more often as the city becomes a center for this kind of vehicle. Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors, joins several other companies, including Lyft and Argo AI, that offer this self-driving car service in Austin.
“San Francisco is crazy — you've got all sorts of pedestrians, bikes, jugglers, roller skate parties,” Prichard said."It's a very complex environment. We're able to build a very repeatable platform for our service. And so as we're looking around at cities, beyond just being awesome, Austin is a great place for us to pick up that technology and bring it."
The company is currently mapping the streets of Austin and will soon start testing the vehicles. The software will run simulations based on mapped models, and the cars will navigate around the streets with safety drivers monitoring from behind the wheel.
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