Watch San Francisco residents react to their first ride in a Cruise autonomous car that has no one sitting in the driver's seat.
General Motors autonomous car unit, Cruise, has started to offer driverless rides to residents of San Francisco as it moves toward the launch of a full-fledged robo-taxi service.
With most riders in the video experiencing autonomous trips for the first time, the reactions were understandably upbeat, ranging from, “This is so cool” to “It’s just weird,” along with comments such as, “The car drove better than most of the drivers I’ve been in the back of a car with.” Vogt said the service will begin with a “small number” of users, but it will gradually increase as it deploys more of its driverless cars on public roads.
The news of Cruise’s move to offer driverless rides to the public comes as the SoftBank Vision Fund, which initially invested $900 million in Cruise in 2018, agreed to pump another $1.35 billion into the company — a cash injection that Vogt said will enable Cruise to expand its engineering team and take its driverless service to more communities.
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