Autonomous Chevy Bolt EV testing expands to Arizona
Cruise Automation, the autonomous driving systems company recently acquired by General Motors, is wasting no time, expanding the testing of its latest self-driving car, the long-range Chevy Bolt EV.
In May, Cruise revealed that just two short months after being brought under the GM umbrella, it revealed it was already testing autonomous Bolts in San Francisco.
On Monday morning, Cruise expanded the scope of its autonomous, long-range EV testing to Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Though this is an impressive ramping up of testing locales, Cruise has a long way to go to match the scope of Google's self-driving cars. The tech giant has autonomous cars in Mountain View, California, Austin, Texas, Kirkland, Washington and most recently Phoenix, Arizona.
While it's unclear exactly what Google plans to do with its self-driving tech, it's a bit more obvious what GM has in store for Cruise.
GM recently partnered with ride-sharing company Lyft as a part of GM's Maven mobility brand. Along with offering cheap SUV rentals to would-be Lyft drivers, GM presumably will one day expand into driverless ride-sharing in addition to adding autonomous tech to its consumer cars.
And although that day might be still be a bit off in the distance, it's closer than you might think.
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