[Fricken]

I'm more interested in what Cruise Automation, GM's robotaxi subsidiary is doing. The in-house Super Cruise efforts are roughly on-par with the various autonomous features that are trickling out from a bunch of OEM's. The incremental approach to autonomy is maybe intuitive to Automakers, but you've got to deal with the vigilance decrement, and the handoff problem, and all the complicated matters of policy, liability and regulations surrounding these incomplete systems that still depend on keeping the driver in the loop to one degree or another. What's the real gain to be had from implementing a bunch of gimmicky features in the comparatively small luxury car segment?

Robotaxis on the other hand stand to be disruptive in the Clayton Christensen sense of word, and even if it wasn't, I'm pretty firm in the belief that being bold and taking on the whole self driving problem as a monolithic entity is in the long run more efficient than trying to do it piecemeal.

[refulgentis]

You dont have to look far, the article is written by Cruise’s CEO. :-)