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Waymo was already offering the service in the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona. Several other companies are planning driverless cars as well. Cruise argued that driverless taxi service using the Origin will benefit people who cannot drive or who don't have easy access to transportation. "The Origin will help expand mobility options for seniors, people who are blind or have low vision, and other communities that have traditionally faced barriers in access to reliable transportation," the company said. Since becoming part of General Motors in March 2016,[17] Cruise has been working on developing software and hardware to make fully autonomous vehicles using modified Chevrolet Bolts.
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In addition to entertainment, passengers expected decadent cuisine on board and enjoyed it in abundance, though not without great effort. “Fine-dining on a ship such as this was a particular challenge,” Finamore says. “Everything on a broad menu offering multiple courses had to be planned, stored, preserved and prepared on board.” Menu selections aboard one Victoria Luise cruise included beef broth with farina dumplings and roast duck and whortleberry soup. Doctors, lawyers, business people, birders and retirees, most in their 50s and 60s, make up the general passenger base. Silversea says they are also booking families, such as the Silicon Valley CEO and kids, for summertime and holiday sailings. You may also run into groups of up to 10 friends traveling together.
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Just last week, Cruise received its driverless deployment permit, which allows the company to begin charging for autonomous services, from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. It just needs one more permit from the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a commercial robotaxi service in San Francisco. Cruise first unveiled its Origin AV — built for both autonomous ride-hail and delivery — in early 2020. The GM-backed company has promised to put “tens of thousands” of Origins on streets in major U.S. cities over the next few years, but its ability to begin mass production has been hampered by lengthy regulatory processes. We’re on track to crack the superhuman threshold in urban environments, and expect to be well past that threshold by the time the Cruise Origin enters production. It’s just more efficient, making full use of the space it takes up on the road.
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Cruise “just days away” from approval to mass-produce Origin robotaxi without steering wheels - The Verge
Cruise “just days away” from approval to mass-produce Origin robotaxi without steering wheels.
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To understand where we’re going, you have to understand where we came from. “No agency decision to grant or deny the petition submitted by GM has been reached nor has a deadline been set for such a decision,” a NHTSA spokesperson told The Verge. After the crash of the Victoria Luise and the subsequent crash and sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania four and then eight years later, the world of leisure cruising slowly came to a halt. “With the start of World War I and the following Depression, the concept of an excursion or cruise ships would not be reborn until after World War II,” Delgado says.
NHTSA to review safety of driverless Cruise Origin before possible 2023 deployment.
And in a few years, the Origins will rely on Cruise’s custom, in-house designed chips, which Vogt says takes a lot of cost and complexity out of the equation. Cruise said the Origin test vehicle had experienced a system fault during testing and pulled over safely, but when live support re-engaged the vehicle, it shifted out of park and rolled into the building at six miles per hour. The entry is low to the ground, and three times larger than that of an average car — wide enough to make room for one person to step in while another person steps out.
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That means we can save money and pass these savings on to our customers, while reducing waste. Its multi-layered sensor suite is designed to keep track of multiple people and objects — even if they’re far away, in pitch-black, or hidden by rain or fog. But even in simple suburban environments, with 20/20 vision and perfect hearing, we can only look in one direction, and we can only see and hear so much.
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Three weeks ago, Cruise started taking sign-ups for people who want to take a ride in a driverless car in San Francisco. That limited deployment was authorized by California's Department of Motor Vehicles. It uses the self-driving car based on the Chevy Bolt, as the Cruise Origin hasn't been deployed yet. The electric powertrain frees up room in the cabin, making sure that as much of the Origin's fairly compact footprint gets dedicated to the passengers as possible. Sliding doors help prevent collisions with cyclists and pedestrians when loading or unloading -- though they'll still have to dodge the people who come spilling out of them at each stop.
Of course, until we know how much an Origin ride will cost, we can't do the math to see if we agree. In 2017, Cruise was conducting testing on public roads with Cruise AVs in San Francisco, Scottsdale, Arizona, and the metropolitan Detroit area. Autonomous vehicle developer Cruise debuted the Cruise Origin, its new vision for a totally driverless, emissions-free vehicle of tomorrow, at an event in San Francisco Tuesday night.
Unlike some similar concept vehicles, Cruise stressed Origin is production-ready. Details about a manufacturing location are expected in the "coming days," according to Ammann. Cruise laid out its plan to go from a limited commercial AV service to tens of thousands of vehicles in a short span during GM’s Investor Event on Wednesday.
It’s already begun virtual autonomous testing, even though it has not gone out onto public roads yet. Having GM as a backer for OEM-level production of vehicles will be a huge advantage for Cruise, said the CEO. The Origin will be built off the same Ultium platform that GM has built to support a wide range of products across its brands, which should enable faster production. Phase three, the “rapid scaling phase,” begins in 2023, when production of the Cruise Origin will begin at GM’s Zero Assembly Plant, a factory dedicated to the production of electric vehicles.
Earlier this week, protestors rallied outside of Cruise headquarters after the fire department accused the company of allowing its robotaxi to block the path of an ambulance which carried a passenger who later died. Cruise showed footage of the incident to TechCrunch that backed its denial of the incident as the fire department described, but the company suffered a reputation hit anyway. And because we own the entire experience, from the app to the Origin to customer service, our customers will get the same consistent experience, every time. By Andrew J. Hawkins, transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State.
Inside you'll find generous seating and legroom for four passengers with the folding center armrests deployed or up to six souls if you don't mind scrunching in. He saw a future of leisurely sea travel available to anyone willing to pay the price of a ticket. The late-19th century director of the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG), or Hamburg-America Line, knew the future of the company rested beyond shipping cargo across the Atlantic.
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