The GM cruise cars are again not on the road in three US states

Cruise robot taxis are Back on the street … well, somehow. Although General Motors Pull the plug In his self -driving taxi business last year, the car manufacturer tacitly implemented some of the vehicles to develop new technologies for driver bill.

This week, Wired discovered a GM Bolt Electric Schrächtheck on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and later saw a similar vehicle on Interstate 880 near Oakland. In any case, the car was driven by a person. But it held Equipment on the roof Like lidar sensors that resembled the setup from the cruise ride-hailing system. The vehicle had written “mint” on the bonnet, but did not contain any visually obvious cruise fire.

The GM spokesman Chaiti Sen confirms Kabel that the company actually uses “a limited number of cruise vehicles on selected motorways in Michigan, Texas and Bay Area to test with trained drivers to further develop simulation models and advanced driver aid systems.” She adds: “This is internal tests and does not affect public passengers.”

GM removed the orange-white cruise logo from the sides of the cars after taking it Full property The unit in February, she says. The most recent activity began in February in Michigan and Texas and in mid -April the San Francisco Bay Area region, says Sen. Cruise had named every vehicle in his fleet, and sen confirmed that “mint” was one of the newly active vehicles in the Bay Area.

For the first time, the test shows how GM gives a fleet of at least hundreds of vehicles that are left of a costly project.

GM acquired a majority stake in San Francisco in 2016 and invested more than $ 8 billion in the development of a robotaxi service. The operation was a quick start and a quick expansion in the eye until October 2023 when a cruise vehicle in San Francisco met a pedestrian who had just been hit by a man operated by humans.

After the incident cruise The state supervisory authorities are misleadingPresent lost a key permitPresent Disruptive operationsAnd released a quarter of his workers.

After Some attempts to restart the businessGM announced last December that the experiment would be canceled as a whole. At that time Mary Barra, CEO of GM, said analysts that it was an expensive distraction from the production of cars.

However, the technology behind Cruise helps to improve the approximately 7 year old Super cruise system Found in some GM cars. The aim is to help drivers stay in the lanes or to apply the emergency brake without having to use their hands.

Several car manufacturers run for cars that unload an increasing amount Driving tasks to computers. GM claims that around 60 percent of his 360,000 Super Cruise customers use the skills regularly.

In the USA, the Robotaxi industry was dominated by Waymoalthough Elon Musks Tesla And Amazon’s Zamx Are among those who continue to try to catch up.

The repeated bolts of GM mingle in the streets of the San Francisco region, where cars with high -leading computer equipment on the roof, back and sides have become the order of the day. This not only includes companies that test sensors and algorithms, but also card providers who collect data, and hobbyists who try to improve their personal trips.