The intention of the manufacturers is that the cost of production is approximately half that of a Tesla electric car.
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A division of General Motors has presented the Criuise Origin to the public: its first fully autonomous electric vehicle. Designed in collaboration with Honda, the model is intended for a future driverless shared mobility service, something that allowed designers to dispense with all forms of manual control, be it the steering wheel or the pedals.
“Hundreds of people gathered in a former Honda franchise in San Francisco to see a flash of this future after the car,” said Quartz on Wednesday, highlighting the rectangular shapes of the body, the orange and white colors of the exposed vehicle, as well as the absence of both the usual steering wheel and combustion engine.
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Dan Ammann, Cruise’s executive director, said the car “runs on a new all-electric platform” and has no “points of failure in detection, computing or power systems, because there is no backup human driver.” In addition, he stressed that “it is not an improved car”, but that it is something “completely different”.
It is intended to be as cheap as possible, so that the cost of the vehicle for the manufacturer is approximately half that of a Tesla electric car.
The manufacturer is declared ready for mass production of this model and for the first deliveries. The biggest obstacle to this will be the incompatibility of Origin with US federal road safety standards.
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