Enlarge / Cruise has been testing its self-driving automobiles, with security drivers, in San Francisco for about 5 years. (credit score: Andrej Sokolow | Getty Pictures)
Final week, Waymo, the self-driving-vehicle developer owned by Alphabet, expanded a first-of-its-kind service providing rides to paying passengers round Phoenix—with nobody behind the wheel. Movies shared by Waymo and others present its minivans navigating extensive, sunny streets with ease.
Now rival Cruise, a Normal Motors subsidiary, has taken a step towards working its personal self-driving-taxi service—on the hilly, winding, pedestrian-swarmed streets of San Francisco. On Thursday, Cruise mentioned the California Division of Motor Autos had granted it a allow to check as much as 5 of its modified Chevy Bolts with out anybody behind the wheel. In a weblog submit, Cruise CEO Dan Ammann mentioned actually driverless automobiles would function within the metropolis earlier than the top of the yr.
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