{"id":12915,"date":"2021-11-04T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/auto\/?p=12915"},"modified":"2021-11-04T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T10:00:23","slug":"cruise-av-first-driverless-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=12915","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Cruise AV Offer Its First Fully Driverless Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cruise, the autonomous driving subsidiary of General Motors<\/a>, has started offering driverless rides in its Chevrolet Bolt EV<\/a>-based vehicle around San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Initially, the service will be offered mainly to Cruise employees,\u00a0although certain members of the public will also be able to ride without being charged a fare. Cruise did not specify who would qualify to ride, but\u00a0the company has not opened its driverless service to members of the general public yet.<\/p>\n

Now, imagine someone hailing a ride using a smartphone app and a fully autonomous car arrives to pick them up minutes later, with no one in the driver\u2019s seat. Actually, you don\u2019t have to imagine that because Cruise co-founder, CTO and president Kyle Vogt, has become the first person to hail a driverless Cruise ride in San Francisco on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Videos shared on Cruise\u2019s YouTube channel document the entire trip, and we have to say it’s really impressive, especially considering that this was the first ride without a human in the driver\u2019s or passenger\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n

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Kyle Vogt posted a series of tweets about the first driverless ride in a Cruise AV<\/a> (that particular car is named Sourdough), and was naturally excited about it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMonday night was a night I\u2019ll never forget. I\u2019m still speechless. I got to take the first ride, by anyone, ever, in a *driverless* robotaxi on the streets of San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He went on to recount how the entire experience went smoothly, and pointed out how special it felt.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s hard to explain, but without someone sitting in the driver\u2019s seat, the AV comes to life in a different way – almost like it has its own personality. I’d say Sourdough\u2019s driving gave off a gingerly yet confident vibe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After Vogt was driven fully autonomously to his destination, he wanted to test the service further, so he requested five more rides that night, bringing along Cruise co-founder Dan Kan, SVP of Engineering Mo ElShenawy, and COO Gil West. \u201cSmooth, flawless rides. It all\u2026 just worked,<\/em>\u201d he tweeted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re wondering why the rides happened at night, it\u2019s because the California DMV\u2019s \u201cdriverless deployment permit\u201d granted to Cruise in early October<\/a> stipulates that AVs can only operate driverless between 10 pm and 6 am and at a max speed of 30 mph (50 km\/h).<\/p>\n

You can watch the Cruise AV\u2019s first driverless ride in the video above, but make sure you also check out the video below. It features a full, unedited shot of the steering wheel and cameras during the driverless rides given that night, including the time before and after rides when the AV was in \u201cghost mode\u201d and driving around without anyone in it.<\/p>\n

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Cruise, the autonomous driving subsidiary of General Motors, has started offering driverless rides in its Chevrolet Bolt EV-based vehicle around San Francisco. Initially, the service will be offered mainly to Cruise employees,\u00a0although certain members of the public will also be able to ride without being charged a fare. Cruise did not specify who would qualify […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}