GM buys software firm to create autonomous vehicles – Digital Journal Juarez

Detroit – Hoping to accelerate development of autonomous vehicles, General Motors acquired a small software company that has been testing cars on the streets of San Francisco. The automaker said Friday it bought Cruise Automation, a company of 40 employees that was founded just three years ago.

The acquisition, together with the own studies of GM, should help the Detroit giant in its competition with Google and others to carry autonomous vehicles on public roads.

GM offered no estimates on when to begin implementing the technology, but President Dan Ammann said that would happen as soon as the company can prove that cars are ready.

“Our position is that autonomous technology will be demonstrably safer than human driver,” Ammann said in a telephone interview.

Cruise Automation, along with Google, is a of the few companies with permission from California to test autonomous cars, said Kyle Vogt, founder and CEO. The company works to resolve the main obstacles of autonomous vehicles: distinguish lanes in bad weather conditions and integrate data from cameras and other sensors for cars to take the right decisions along the way, Vogt said. “I agree that is a challenge,” he said. “Look markers lanes is not the solution.”

Cruise reported a shock to the Department of Motor Vehicles California in an autonomous car rammed from behind a vehicle of authority street parking in San Francisco. Vogt said that at the time of the accident the human driver had taken the wheel.

GM did not disclose the amount of the acquisition. He said that all employees of Cruise Automation will add to GM and work as a separate unit and there are plans to hire more staff.

This is the third major investment by GM in the sector again transport. The company has invested 500 million dollars in Lyft, service hired taxis through an application for mobile devices and started a similar service in Ann Arbor, Michigan, plans to expand to other metropolitan areas.

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