Waymo would raise capital at a valuation “at least several times that of Cruise.”
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GM Cruise snags Dropbox HR head to hire 1,000 engineers by the end of the year
GM Cruise plans to hire 1,000 more engineers over the next nine months, TechCrunch has learned. It’s an aggressive move by the autonomous vehicle technology company to double its size as it pushes to deploy a robotaxi service by the end of the year. Arden Hoffman, who helped scale Dropbox, will leave the file-sharing and […]
View More GM Cruise snags Dropbox HR head to hire 1,000 engineers by the end of the yearWaymo tops new self-driving report while Apple brings up the rear
Apple’s self-driving car project isn’t doing so well. Last month more than 200 employees from the team were sent to other machine learning divisions. Then in a report this week, Apple came in dead last out of 62 companies permitted to test drive auto…
View More Waymo tops new self-driving report while Apple brings up the rearFlat Earthers plan a cruise that uses charts of a round planet to navigate
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Someone is going to tell them, right?
Flat Earthers from around the globe disc are planning an all-out cruise for the 2020 Flat Earther International Conference. Promised to be the “biggest, boldest, best adventure yet,” the cruise will bring like-minded people together who all believe the planet is a disc protected by an ice wall barrier. There’s only one tiny hole in this plan — the cruise ship relies on navigational equipment based on a spherical Earth.
“Nautical charts are designed with that in mind: that the Earth is round,” former cruise ship captain Henk Keijer told The Guardian. Keijer captained cruise ships for 23 years and is now a forensic marine expert. Read more…
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View More Flat Earthers plan a cruise that uses charts of a round planet to navigateThe autonomous food-delivery space keeps getting bigger
It started with pizzas and Walmart groceries delivered in a self-driving car from Ford. Now robot-driven food is catching on with even more new companies and apps. GM’s Cruise is working with food delivery service DoorDash to bring your meal from a r…
View More The autonomous food-delivery space keeps getting biggerGM’s self-driving unit Cruise is expanding to Seattle
Cruise, the self-driving company acquired by GM in 2016, is expanding to Seattle as it seeks out more engineering talent to develop its technology. The company doesn’t have any plans right now to test its autonomous vehicles in the city. Instead, GM Cruise plans to set up offices in Seattle to attract and hire between […]
View More GM’s self-driving unit Cruise is expanding to SeattleGM and Honda could give us the self-driving car with a minibar we all deserve
Cruise Automation wants to build the ultimate autonomous car.
The company, led by Kyle Vogt, the cofounder of the livestreaming platform Twitch, might be tootling its self-driving technology around San Francisco in camera-and-sensor-loaded Chevy Bolt…
In recruiting win, GM’s Cruise employees offered equity in Cruise
In what will be seen as a big recruiting and retention win for Cruise, employees will be offered equity in GM’s self-driving technology subsidiary rather than shares of GM. The securities offering was disclosed in a recent SEC filing for GM Cruise Holdings LLC. The filing, which also lists the initial officers of GM Cruise […]
View More In recruiting win, GM’s Cruise employees offered equity in CruiseAutonomous driving is coming to all Cadillac models, other GM brands
Starting in 2020, Cadillac will start to offer autonomous driving on every Cadillac model. The Super Cruise system is already available today but limited to just the full-size CT6 sedan. General Motors is also announcing today that the SuperCruise system will start hitting other GM brands — such as Chevrolet, GMC, and Buick — after […]
View More Autonomous driving is coming to all Cadillac models, other GM brandsWhy SoftBank invested $2.25 billion in Cruise
Earlier today, General Motors’ Cruise received a $2.25 billion investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund. Once that deal closes, GM will invest another $1.1 billion. SoftBank landed on Cruise because it’s one of “a handful that in our view have a meaningful opportunity in front of them,” SoftBank Vision Fund Managing Partner Michael Ronen told TechCrunch. […]
View More Why SoftBank invested $2.25 billion in CruiseCruise, GM’s self-driving car unit, brings on Zippy team
Cruise recently brought on seven team members from Zippy.ai, which develops robots for last-mile grocery and package delivery, for an undisclosed amount of money. The deal did not include any of Zippy’s product or intellectual property. Instead, it seems Cruise was more interested in the skillsets of the co-founders, Gabe Sibley, Alex Flint and Chris […]
View More Cruise, GM’s self-driving car unit, brings on Zippy teamCruise’s CTO, a former Uber manager, is out
General Motors’ self-driving car unit, Cruise Automation, is parting ways with CTO A.G. Gangadhar, Bloomberg first reported. This comes after public complaints pertaining to his role in fostering an alleged unsafe work environment for women. “After serious consideration, Cruise and AG have elected to part ways,” a Cruise spokesperson told TechCrunch in a statement. “We […]
View More Cruise’s CTO, a former Uber manager, is out