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Kyle Vogt, the co-founder and CEO of Cruise, introduced right this moment that Cruise autos can be heading to Nashville. Nashville will develop into the seventh metropolis that the corporate has began operations in.
Cruise’s journey began in San Francisco, and since then the corporate has deployed its robotaxis in Phoenix and Austin, and has began operations in Houston, Dallas, and Miami. In accordance with Vogt, we are able to anticipate to start out seeing Cruise robotaxis in Nashville throughout the subsequent few months.
A 12 months in the past, nonetheless, Cruise was solely working its robotaxi providers in San Francisco. Whereas it took the corporate 33 months to obtain all of the regulatory approval it wanted to start rides in San Francisco, based on Vogt, for the corporate’s subsequent deployment areas in Phoenix and Austin it took simply three weeks.
Since then, Cruise hasn’t slowed down its growth. In accordance with Vogt, this fast progress is feasible due to the corporate’s choice to start operations in San Francisco, a metropolis infamous for fog, steep hills, and heavy visitors. As soon as Cruise’s robotaxis may deal with San Francisco, it may apply what it discovered to just about any metropolis, though the corporate has but to sort out a metropolis the place it might anticipate heavy snow.
Due to all the AVs expertise driving, beginning operations in a brand new metropolis means figuring out areas the place the AV system doesn’t generalize properly and fixing these, or just retraining Cruise’s present machine studying fashions utilizing information from the brand new metropolis. Often, the corporate needed to redesign components of a system to raised match the brand new metropolis.
Cruise has even given its robotaxis the power to adapt to uncommon conditions, like these the place pedicabs, pedal taverns, and even donkeys are current, with out exhausting coding guidelines for every uncommon state of affairs.
Whereas Cruise has had a lot success in rolling out its robotaxi providers, it hasn’t been with out challenges. Earlier this 12 months, the corporate issued a voluntary recall of 300 Cruise autos with the Nationwide Freeway Transportation Security Administration (NHTSA). The recall was in response to a minor collision the place a Cruise robotaxi hit the again of a San Francisco bus.
Cruise’s autonomous driving system can be at present being investigated by NHTSA. In a submitting, NHSTA mentioned it was interested by two totally different points that had been reported to the administration that each outcome within the robotaxis turning into hazards for others on the street.
