Robotaxi Service Cruise Begins Testing In Miami

Cruise, which operates self-driving cars, has announced plans to begin operating in Miami.

In a tweet, the company said it began initial testing and data collection last week.

Phase 1 is to familiarize the fleet with road conditions while collecting data, the company said.

Cruise is controlled by General Motors, with the goal of creating a driverless vehicles.

The company’s plan to operate robotaxis in San Francisco has been delayed by opposition there, according to TechCrunch.

 

(image: cruise)

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Kitty w
2 months ago

The addition of a drivers without eyes or ears won’t be a noticeable change from currant traffic conditions.

Joe CARollo
2 months ago

Cant get any worse

Anonymous
2 months ago

I would trust driverless cars a million times more than your average Miami driver.

anon
2 months ago

and the good news is that these self-driving cars dont beep the second the light turns green 🙂

Anonymous
2 months ago

Yeah, I’m in favor of the beeping. What I’m not in favor of are the mindless idiots sitting on their phone causing everyone behind them to beep at them.

Anonymous
2 months ago

In Miami, what could go wrong?

Anonymous
2 months ago

Another beaut by Cruise!

Anonymous
2 months ago

Iconic! 😉

Ramirez
2 months ago

If it can learn to drive in Miami then it can survive anywhere

anon
2 months ago

until it has to drive thru rush hour traffic in bogotá, but miami is getting there no doubt, especially with all these weaving scooters on the roads nowadays

Anonymous
2 months ago

Nice to see new technology moving into Miami.
Hopefully, air taxis start flying around soon too.

Name*
2 months ago

That was a movie from the 80s and only works in LA which had copious mandatory helipads like no other city.

Anonymous
2 months ago

That’s not Miami, that’s the Castro district in San Fran

Anonymous
2 months ago

Show that picture in a presentation to Hialeah residents. What could possible go wrong?

Dan
2 months ago

It’s SF or San Francisco. No San Fran please lol.

anon
2 months ago

Get the cones ready!

Cover the Podiums
2 months ago

I thought about this concept a long time ago. This could be game changer for Miami, especially in the slower moving traffic east of I-95. Basically a better way of doing “Uber shared”, with vehicles meant to be shared with strangers. If we had hundreds of these on the roads of downtown brickell/edgewater, etc, it could help alleviate traffic at a low cost per person.

Here once before
2 months ago

“a better way of doing “Uber shared”, with vehicles meant to be shared with strangers.”

So basically a bus? Or the people mover? or metro? Vehicles shared by strangers already exists.

Cover the Podiums
2 months ago

Completely different. A) it doesn’t have a fixed route so its faster since its a direct shot to your destination. B) once the “pod” is full which can be only 1 or 2 stops, it makes no more stops after C) these pods are way more nimble than big slow buses, which no one like big slow, wide buses D) with a metro you have to walk or take an uber to the station, adding additional time and costs, making less convenient.

I can go on and on.

Sven
2 months ago

Long time ago? Was it 5 years ago?
That is when I saw the first autonomous vehicles from Argo/Ford testing in Wynwood and Brickell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLOyULUMq0k

BigPapi
2 months ago

They did studies on this years ago in Spain with different size capacity vehicles. The Uber shared is owned by a person who takes the vehicle home with them thus usually stays local and does it at their own time. The driverless will be vehicles that will be traveling non-stop then need a garage or parking lot which then adds more vehicles on the road between park and travel. To minimize this, they reduce cost which will entice more riding in lieu of downtime between stops. Thus equals that they found although it can be more efficient 10-15% in spacing, start stop between lights, etc. The driverless transportation adds more vehicles on the road and mileage overall so traffic and duration in traffic increases beyond the benefit of the efficiency.

Conrad
2 months ago

I don’t like this idea 😳

George
2 months ago

GREAT! Bring them and test them in Key Biscayne

anon
2 months ago

better than your average miami driver

Norm
2 months ago

From the company that gave us the Vega.

Ruebin Rubinoso
2 months ago

And, the CHEVETTE!!!

Anonymous
2 months ago

And, the failing Chevy Bolt.

YIMBY SmartAss
2 months ago

The current set of liability laws and insurance as it relates to injury and death of others is so far away from being able to contemplate a self driving car on public roads. If you think you see a lot of lawyer billboards now, just wait until every person hurt or killed by a self driving car gets to file suit against Chevy, Google, Tesla, or such. Let’s figure out trains and busses and cars in Miami before introducing this legal nightmare to our streets. One Miami residents opinion.

Anonymous
2 months ago

If we accept your logic, we would still be in horse and buggy. Yes, things could go wrong as they do on everything, but in the long term with good regulations there should be less injury and fatalities as the human element of the driver is removed from driving. Currently, there are many accidents from human negligence and impaired driving as well that you are overlooking.

Sven
2 months ago

Oooohhhh….
Good thinking!

Ford and General Motors haven’t thought of that. Quick, quick!
Let them know!

Cover the podiums
2 months ago

I bet driverless cars will get in less accidents than your typical Miami resident with a suspended license. Plus no revving, cutting people off, speeding, etc etc.

Anonymous
2 months ago

that engine revving thing really scares you?

Anonymous
2 months ago

It doesn’t scare anyone. If anything, it’s just embarrassing and a tell-tale sign that the boys in question are lacking in the intelligence department (among other things). For civilized people, it’s also really obnoxious.

Anonymous
2 months ago

And I bet the driverless cars will understand those super complicated four-way stops that we just can’t seem to comprehend here.

Anonymous
2 months ago

Tom Cruise.

Mark
2 months ago

Great to hear! I hope this winds up servicing homestead to Kendall. But Ford and Argo just departed less than a year ago? What were the findings on their failure?

Sven
2 months ago

Argo was working on Level 4 fully autonomous driving. Ford and VW were major investors in Argo and those two are going to split the tech and apply it to Level 2 & 3 driving assist. Faster payoff I guess.