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GM’s first fully autonomous car will be electric and launch on Lyft
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General Motors' first fully autonomous car will be electric, available
to
just about anyone, and it could be here before you know it.
The company plans to bring its self-driving cars to the masses by
launching
its first driverless on the Lyft platform, Pam Fletcher, executive
chief
engineer of autonomous tech at GM, told Tech Insider.
Fletcher would not share specifics about timing, but she did say the
company’s first fully autonomous car will be available via the
ride-sharing
service sooner than you may expect.
"We have not made that announcement yet, but what I would say is this
is all
coming much faster than people anticipate, so I’ll say that much. We
have
been transparent about that,” she said. “We are working on an on-demand
ride-sharing network with Lyft, it’s not something we are thinking
about,
it’s something we are very much readying for consumer use.”
Fletcher, who formerly served as GM's executive chief engineer for
electric
vehicles, said the company’s first autonomous car would also be
electric.
GM, of course, is making a big push into the electric car market with
the
launch of the BoltEV, a fully electric, long-range vehicle slated to
roll
out later this year.
While the BoltEV will be available for purchase, it is specifically
aimed at
urban mobility and was designed with ride-sharing in mind, Fletcher
said.
Autonomous cars make sense as electric vehicles because they offer the
passenger a better experience, she said.
“They (EVs) operate very smoothly, they operate very quietly,
seamlessly,
and so you can create this very positive experience inside the car,”
she
said. “People they want that, they want to get in the car and for it to
feel
like a cocoon, so they can take a nap or have a conference,”
In January at CES, GM announced that it was making a $500 million
investment
in Lyft and said that it was working with the ride-sharing company to
create
a network of on-demand autonomous vehicles.
In March, GM announced it was buying the self-driving car startup
Cruise
Automation to help strengthen its autonomous efforts and in May it was
revealed that Cruise was testing its self-driving tech on the Bolt.
However, the company told Tech Insider that currently Lyft’s efforts
and
Cruise’s Bolt tests are separate programs. But it’s highly likely they
will
overlap in the future.
According to a Wall Street Journal report published in May, General
Motors
and Lyft could begin testing a fleet of self-driving cars on public
roads
before the end of the year.
Fletcher wouldn’t comment on specifics, but she did hint that the Bolt
would
play a big role in the GM’s push into mobility services.
"There are a number of things that you can piece together. We
introduced the
car about the same time at CES as when we really started talking about
mobility and rideshare. So it’s not by coincidence, and if you look at
a lot
of aspects of the Bolt EV there are a lot of elements about it that are
really crafted around a good ride share application, so that takes it
into
the future” she said.
"So what I would say is this car is a big part of a transformation of
transportation and mobility."
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