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| General Motors offers the driverless car model |
GM's cruise line provided a model electric car with no steering wheel or pedals planned for autonomous driving services.
This car, called Cruise Origin, was developed in cooperation with Japanese automaker Honda. Honda acquired 5.7% of Cruise shares in 2018 for $ 2.75 billion, and was trying to get past its competitors at a huge cost. Ready to launch any product on the market.
The car was a minibus with three seats on each side facing each other. Cruise has not revealed details such as battery capacity or cost, but families who claim they live in San Francisco and use crowdsourcing services save $ 5,000.
Cruise CEO said: The sliding door SUV box will be used by both sides for the company's transportation services, but has not announced when new competitors Lyft and Uber will be on the market.
Cruise's market value was $ 19 billion in May. In July, General Motors postponed its plan to launch a commercial robotic taxi service by the end of 2019, saying cars needed more testing and Cruise had not received a license to test vehicles independently. There are no security drivers in California.
Although carmakers around the world are struggling to develop driverless cars, this technology has not been widely accepted by consumers because recent incidents involving these cars have jeopardized their willingness to drive on public roads. ,
GM Cruise CEO said: “Obviously we're still working on something that hasn't happened before and the schedule is uncertain, but we're moving fast.
Cruz provides transportation services to San Francisco employees, including self-driving cars with safety drivers, and most of its 180 vehicles roam the city, the company CEO said in the driver's model.
The Cruise Origin prototype is expected to be tested in private facilities this year, and the production cost of the vehicle is expected to be half of the production cost of advanced SUVs such as the Tesla Model X.