General Motors-owned Cruise is taking its autonomous cars to Texas and Arizona before the end of this year to test a robot taxi service.
Cruise’s autonomous cars are heading to Texas and Arizona before the end of this year.
The General Motors-owned company plans to launch ridesharing pilots in Austin and Phoenix in what will be its first expansion of the service outside of San Francisco.
Waymo CEO Kyle Vogt shared the news in a series of tweets on Monday, September 12, revealing that his Austin team is planning to go from having no test vehicles or maps to launching fully driverless rides within the space of just 90 days.
“Some fun news,” Vogt tweeted. “Cruise is bringing driverless rides to Austin and Phoenix later this year. Our team is going from zero footprint in Austin (no test vehicles or maps) to driverless rides in ~90 days. We’ve been prepping for scaling the last couple years, glad to see that work paying off.”
In other comments made this week at Goldman Sachs’s Communacopia and Technology Conference, Vogt said that for its Phoenix pilot, Cruise will continue engaging with Walmart in a partnership that’s working toward the launch of a delivery service using self-driving cars.
