Name: Exclusive look at Cruise’s first fully driverless car
Uploaded: 2020-10-29T18:25:06.000Z
Duration: 5 min 12 s
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- Hey, it's Andy with The Verge, and we just got our

autonomous vehicle from Cruise, they call it the Origin.

It really didn't look like any car I've ever seen before

and that's really kind of the first impression you get

The outside of it has the same dimensions

but that's really kind of where the similarities end.

you first have to put in a code on its keypad,

it's a minivan that opens from both sides.

and that's obvious because there's no steering wheel,

there's no pedals, there's no gear shaft,

There's just two bench seats facing each other

and this sort of vast space in between them.

- It's designed to be comfortable if it's shared,

but if it's just you you got so much space in here,

you can really like, stretch out, and it's pretty great.

whether it's just you or a lot of other people.

and Argo which is backed by Ford and Volkswagen.

Cruise is tied very closely to GM, General Motors,

which is the largest auto manufacturer in the US.

Cruise has 160 self driving test vehicles

where they hope to eventually launch a fully

But more importantly, they've raised about seven billion

dollars in venture capital cash over the last

couple of years, which is really just like,

a staggering amount of money for a self driving car company.

Especially when you consider that they haven't even

Now about two point seven billion of that

is coming from the other big auto manufacturer

This doesn't look like any other car in the road today,

arguing that many of the problems that we have today

could be traced to single occupancy vehicles.

removing the driver, and the steering wheel, and the pedal,

that eliminates some complexity and cost in the vehicle.

But as you can see here, the way vehicles are designed,

normally they have a hood in the front where the engine is,

and you don't need things placed where they are,

we can have this enormous, spacious cabin

without taking up any more space on the road

than a regular car would, which is kind of insane.

It leads to a far greater experience for the rider,

and specifically being used in a ride share fleet,

you know the vehicle is engineered to last a million miles,

and all the interior components are replaceable.

The compute is replaceable, the sensors are replaceable,

and what that does is it drives the cost per mile down

- Now Cruise insists that this is not just a fancy concept,

which is a really important distinction to make.

Now we've seen dozens of radical car concepts

over the years that have re-imagined interiors

that look like fancy living rooms or bedrooms.

of hitting the road anytime soon, if ever.

Cruise says that this car is going into production.

Cruise needs a special exemption from the federal government

in order to mass produce vehicles without

traditional human controls like steering wheels and pedals.

And the federal government only grants about

Now GM put in its request for an exemption

back in 2018, but it hasn't gotten it yet,

and it's unclear when exactly this car is going

Now Cruise has hit some bumps in the road before.

Its plan to launch a robo taxi service in San Francisco

before the end of 2019 didn't really happen.

It said the technology wasn't really ready yet.