Cruise reveals its “production-ready” Origin autonomous car
By Karl Smith2020-01-22T15:19:00
Cruise Automation, a mobility startup with funding from GM and Honda, has debuted its new… car?
Cruise Automation, a transportation startup with heavy investment from GM and Honda among others, has been seeking an autonomous solution to urban mobility for a few years now. Specially outfitted GM Bolt cars have been seen cruising (no pun intended) around San Francisco for some time, and there was a long-awaited rollout of the working vehicle scheduled for 2019.
That deadline came and went, leaving some wondering if the venture – now valued at some 19 billion dollars – was just automotive vaporware, as some other automotive startups have proven to be (not naming names, but you know who you are).