# GM dumps their Cruise division

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**Created:** [December 11, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-dumps-their-cruise-division/198326 "2024-12-11T00:23:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-dumps-their-cruise-division/198326/1 "2024-12-11T00:23:48Z")

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GM announced that they are shutting down their robotaxi division, Cruise. They will focus on driver assist features. Not surprising to me given the long time it will take to produce a truly autonomous vehicle and GM doesn’t have deep enough pockets to continue. What do you think?

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**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-dumps-their-cruise-division/198326/2 "2024-12-11T02:00:02Z")

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I think that accident in San Francisco did them in.

> **[Cruise Taxi Runs Over, Pins Woman Hit By Other Car To The Ground](https://jalopnik.com/cruise-taxi-runs-over-stops-on-top-of-woman-hit-by-oth-1850895138)**
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> A hit-and-run was made worse after a Cruise taxi pinned the victim to the ground

Let some other company fight off the lawyers.

> [@jtsanders](#):
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> given the long time it will take to produce a truly autonomous vehicle

I think they are here already. There are autonomous taxis successfully running in a number of cities. See below

> **[Map Shows Where Robotaxis Are Approved](https://www.newsweek.com/map-robotaxis-approved-robot-vehicles-cruise-waymo-zoox-1909285)**
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> Amazon's Zoox is the latest autonomous ridehailing service to get approval to operate on public roads.

Likely each taxis is very expensive to produce, the liability is massive and many municipalities clearly nervous about allowing them.