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Cruise will be a tech provider like Waymo.

While owned by General Motors, no. But with Softbank buying in, maybe GM is backing away from Cruise.

Is this another the Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund investment via Softbank? They seem to have become the world's largest source of dumb money.

Is there anybody, anywhere, yet who is deploying self-driving cars without "safety drivers" or insisting the driver remain active at the wheel? Cruise, no. Waymo, did for a while, then backed off. Volvo was supposed to be deploying by now but backed off. There are a few self-driving shuttle buses, but they're really slow, like 10mph, except when on dedicated pathways.

Companies that are claiming they will deploy in volume in the next two years are bullshitting. Nobody has Level 3 self driving working reliably in test yet. Let alone Level 4 or 5.

[dragonwriter]

> But with Softbank buying in, maybe GM is backing away from Cruise.

SoftBank was already a big investor in Cruise.