News Republisher

Scouring the news for interesting articles on robotaxis.

Joined: 12/29/2023
Articles: 259

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Business Insider – Why GM pulled the plug on Cruise after spending $10 billion on robotaxis

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12/11/24

Business Insider reports on how GM is shutting down the Cruise division. But their main point is that the robotaxi business is simply a bad business financially.

$$$, News, Tesla, Zoox

elektrek – Tesla loses its head of Autopilot HW engineering to Amazon’s self-driving effort

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12/11/24

elektrek announces that Tesla is losing yet another critical long-term employee. This time it is the head of Autopilot and FSD HW engineering. Why would the head of AV hardware leave Tesla when they are supposedly lsoon to make billions of dollars off of their robotaxi business???

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WSJ – General Motors Scraps Cruise Robotaxi Program

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12/10/24

Wall Street Journal reports that, as predicted, Cruise has crashed. It is being shut down. And GM will focus more on development of advanced driver assistance systems, putting autonomy on the back burner.

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Reuters – Tesla aims to launch robotaxi with teleoperator backup, Deutsche Bank says

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12/9/24
Rev 12/10/24

Reuters reports that Tesla has come to the realization that FSD won't actually be adequate for robotaxis and that teleoperation will be needed. Tesla also explains that originally the robotaxis would be owned by Tesla, not by individuals as described earlier.