Posted on 01/12/2018 4:36:18 PM PST by equaviator
Today, GM unveiled the first image of its upcoming autonomous fourth-generation Bolt EV-based vehicle – the “first without a steering wheel or pedal.”
The automaker also says that it filed a petition asking the DOT permission to deploy the vehicle as soon as next year.
The move represents an accelerated self-driving timeline for the company, which could potentially leapfrog most other companies working on the technology since the most common timeline is a commercial launch in 2020-2022.
The vehicle would represent the next generation of Cruise AV autonomous car based on the Bolt EV.
In June, GM announced the completion of the first batch of 130 Chevy Bolt EV autonomous prototypes at its Orion Assembly Plant located in Orion Township, Michigan...They are already using part of their fleet to carry Cruise employees “anywhere in San Francisco using their app” – an early version of the service they plan to offer to the public someday.
Although GM claims to be the 1st without a steering wheel or pedal, Google has demonstrated pedal-less, steeringwheel-less autonomous vehicles first as part of its Google X labs in 2014 and now part of its Waymo spinoff. Google has since added back steering wheels to its own vehicles and *steered* the organization to more as add-ons to existing vehicles, especially Lexus crossovers and Chrysler Pacifica Hybrids.
A few months later, they claimed to be ready to “mass produce” self-driving Chevy Bolt EVs and they announced an expansion of the test fleet to New York...In order to plead their case for the safety of their vehicle and submit their petition for the permission to deploy the vehicle, GM released a new “2018 Self-Driving Safety Report”.
The report explains the various passive and active safety features of the vehicle as well as all the redundant hardware.
Self driving cars is an idea of rich people that never drive anyway
We will be watching out for that, for sure!!!
People with hour long commutes should ask for a cot to be installed.
The General Motors Company (their official post-bailout name) used to emphasize something called the “Voice of the Customer” in it’s product development ‘philosophy’ but I don’t see how this is the result of them actually hearing and listening to it.
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“Voice of the environmentalist wacko subsidized at our expense customer”
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do these work on gps and motion detection. Both fail in lightening storms. What then at 80 mph? This is absurd.
Yep, i’ll be taking a pass. No brainer.
I have a more than hour long commute. I have less than zero interest in riding a drone.
Does the controlling app connect the cell phone directly to the car, or does it rely on the cell tower infrastructure?
There was a story a year or so ago about some guy with a cell-phone-controlled car who drove out into the Nevada desert, “zero bars”, got out of his car, somehow locked it, and couldn’t unlock it because there was no cell phone coverage there.
Don’t know how he got out of there ... couldn’t call Uber either without a cell phone.
Hitchhike?
I have never seen a positive “Voice of the Customer” memo. It is business-speak for “complaints”.
....women and children, and carjackers affected most.....
If I can’t control it, I’m just not interested.
I don’t know about the rest of you but self-driving, self-flying, self-sailing scares the daylights out of me. I think all of it should be banned in this country. Let them do tests in some of the Shit Holes.
I believe that you do control it (The SureFly).
On days when the clouds are above the mountains, it might be useful.
But if I can’t control it ... fly it (or drive it) by hand ... I’m not interested.
“Self driving cars is an idea of rich people that never drive anyway”
Are people really clamoring for this? I like to drive. Why not autonomous restrooms, where a probe senses discomfort and whisks you off to be roboticly diapered?
“That’s the idea behind SureFly, an octocopter concept capable of carrying two passengers into remote and difficult-to-access areas up to 70 miles away.
Better known for its trucks, Workhorse Group Inc. plans to unveil the technology at the Paris Air Show on June 19.”
“It’s designed to be a short-hop machine — if you can fly a drone, you should be able to fly this,” Steven Burns, chief executive of the Loveland, Ohio, company told Trucks.com.
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