Tuesday, December 10, 2024

General Motors pulls plug on robotaxi business

General Motors has announced that it will stop funding the development of the Cruise self-driving taxi. The company says it will now "refocus autonomous driving development on personal vehicles". GM also pointed to the increasingly competitive robotaxi market as a reason for the move.

Posted by REDIAL at 10:21 PM | 6 COMMENTS | permalink

Comments

Stated differently (and imo)...

Mr Musk's view of self-driving cars is flawed, we have done an analysis that has shown the likely lawsuits resulting from self-driving cars will out weigh any potential profits.


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#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-10 11:02 PM

Aside:

Have you noticed that the traffic lights in your area now seem to be getting a yellow border around the fram of the light?

Was that done to help robot cars better discern the traffic light?


Wish I knew ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-10 11:08 PM

Leather Nun - I Can Smell Your Thoughts (1987)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

Whoa, not the usual lyrics provider(s) ...

Anyway, here goes...

www.musixmatch.com

...
I can hear the fog
Sweeping in over the bay
Water lit by the sun
Desolated street
In the early morning
Walking by myself
Talking to myself
And I'm thinking of you
And I'm thinking of me
And I'm thinking of us, yeah
I'm thinking of us

chorus

Oh honey
This is not a romance
Just a perfect ending
To a perfect night

verse

I see the sunrise
And ride the rain washed streets
Walking aimlessly alone

I see the gulls on the pier
I wish I was a God
And not the dog I am
Just a fool for my lust
And I'm thinking of you
And I'm thinking of me
And I'm thinking of us
Yes I'm thinking of us

chorus

Oh honey
This is not a romance
Just a perfect ending
To a perfect night

verse

I can smell your thoughts
It's like a spark in your eyes
You're thinking of him
And then love's just to die
So you turn around
To the original sin
And it leaves a thorn
Leaves a thorn in your heart
So I pick a rose
And it's a waste of time
When picked it dies
With a bitter taste
...


Woof.


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-10 11:27 PM

Well that was about ten billion that GM flushed down the drain.

#4 | Posted by MSgt at 2024-12-12 01:12 AM

Well that was about ten billion that GM flushed down the drain.

Over 10 years. GM revenues in the last quarter was 48 billion. I doubt they will fold.

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-12 01:24 AM

Joy Electric - Electric Car 1997

Feeling alone on the roads when you were with me
Pass by the night lights, it sparkled your eyes so brightly
Over the bridge where we live on our small dreams
Together we drive until midnight and count the moonbeams
You'd know

Electric car, oh electric car
'lectric car, oh electric car

Remember when we would go in the morning
and drive to the country just to see the new day dawning
You had a blanket and you had my heart stolen
Your still a dream and a ghost and a sad memory
Goodbye

Electric car, oh electric car
'lectric car, oh electric car

#6 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2024-12-12 01:42 PM

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