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Building the world's most advanced self-driving vehicles.

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@llsethj Chiming in with more details: our AV yielded to the police vehicle, then pulled over to the nearest safe location for the traffic stop, as intended. An officer contacted Cruise personnel and no citation was issued.
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@llsethj We work closely with the SFPD on how to interact with our vehicles, including a dedicated phone number for them to call in situations like this.
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1) MAJOR NEWS! We’re now the first and only company approved to operate a fared driverless ridehail service in a major U.S. city after receiving the Driverless Deployment Permit from @californiapuc ! Read more in our blog: and🧵⬇️
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By removing the steering wheel, the rearview mirror, the pedals, and more, we’re left with something simple: space.
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Ready for testing. ✅ Our next-generation vehicle, Origin, has hit test roads in California. Keep your eyes out for it on public roads soon. 👀
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Hey San Francisco, ready to ride? Be one of the first to experience the magic of a driverless ride. Sign up today at
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A view of San Francisco you probably haven’t seen before. Join us in solving the engineering challenge of our generation.
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Them: self-driving cars are years away. Us: ok boomer. 📸: @ae86_racer
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4 years
Today, Cruise received a permit from the California DMV to remove the human backup drivers from our self-driving cars. We’re going to be the first to put this permit to use on the streets of a major U.S. city.
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4 years
Introducing the Cruise Origin. Self-Driven. All-Electric. Shared.
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3 years
Big news for us! Cruise is teaming up with @Microsoft , one of the world’s most respected leaders in AI and cloud computing, as we make the shift from R&D to commercializing self-driving vehicles:
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Today's transportation system is broken. Human-driven, gas-powered, single-occupant cars are robbing us of our lives, our time, and our planet. Cruise CEO Dan Ammann shares how the status quo is no longer acceptable and it's time to move beyond the car.
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(1/6) We learned today at 10:30 am PT of the California DMV’s suspension of our driverless permits. As a result, we will be pausing operations of our driverless AVs in San Francisco.
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The Cruise Origin is not a concept. It’s a production vehicle. It’s not a product you buy, it’s an experience you share.
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@alfsan We’re actively investigating, but we can confirm that the truck attempted a left turn from the right lane while our car was passing. The AV came to a complete stop to avoid a collision when it detected the truck beginning to move, but the truck continued and struck our vehicle.
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(1/3) The most important thing for us right now is to take steps to rebuild public trust. Part of this involves taking a hard look inwards and at how we do work at Cruise, even if it means doing things that are uncomfortable or difficult.
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WorldGen is a system that can procedurally generate entire cities from their quirky layouts to the smallest details without any manual work. This allows us to test in new operational design domains more efficiently and with a shorter lead time. #UnderTheHood
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A moment 5 years and 2 million miles in the making –– watch a self-driving vehicle drive in San Francisco without anyone behind the steering wheel. Full video on YouTube:
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"Safe, comfortable, and affordable... like my mittens"
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Our Infrastructure engineers built a multi-cluster, multi-environment, multi-tenant #Kubernetes -based container to host a wide variety of containerized workloads running in the cloud. Read @KarlKFI 's blog on the PaaS system we're using and see what's next:
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Our self-driving cars encounter construction, cyclists, pedestrians, and six-way intersections up to 47 times more frequently in San Francisco than in suburban environments. Join us in solving the engineering challenge of our generation.
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It's not enough to practice just one unprotected left turn. On a typical day, the Cruise AV fleet safely executes 1,400 of them in San Francisco, generating enough data for engineers to analyze and apply learnings to code they develop for other tricky maneuvers
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(1/3) At approximately 9:30 pm on October 2, a human-driven vehicle struck a pedestrian while traveling in the lane immediately to the left of a Cruise AV. The initial impact was severe and launched the pedestrian directly in front of the AV.
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3 years
We’re honored to be the first to receive a permit from the @californiapuc to provide a driverless autonomous vehicle passenger service here in California!
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Today we authorized @cruise to provide “driverless” autonomous vehicle passenger service in which members of the public can ride in a test vehicle that operates without a driver in the vehicle.
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We’re proud to announce that @Honda is investing $2.75 billion dollars in Cruise and has chosen to partner with us and @GM . This partnership will help us to create a new purpose-built autonomous vehicle.
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After the Suez Canal blockage, it's time to make waves in seafaring navigation. We’re sending autonomous ships to the high seas. Say “Ahoy!” to Cruise Cargo –– because removing the helmsman is the true benchmark of autonomous oceanic transport.
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👋🏼 Miami 🌴😎 We’re excited to start initial testing and data collection in your vibrant city tomorrow! Phase 1 is to familiarize our fleet with additional, diverse road conditions while collecting data.
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From the US to Japan 🇯🇵 Cruise is committed to delivering safe and accessible transportation solutions. We’re excited to announce plans to establish a joint venture with @GM and @Honda to bring self-driving tech to Japan starting in 2026. Learn more:
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A little after 10PM last night one of our cars was in a collision at Polk and Turk St and we wanted to provide an update on what we know at this time. (1/5)
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Today we introduced the Cruise Origin. Self-Driven. All-Electric. Shared. It’s not a product you buy. It’s an experience you share. Watch its debut. Learn more at
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@_bennettm_ This received our immediate attention, and after reviewing this interaction we want to provide important context–not visible in the video is another pedestrian to the right of the vehicle who lunged in front of the car, causing it to briefly maneuver to the left to avoid contact.
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Narrow streets filled with construction zones, double-parked cars, fire trucks, and pedestrians. Just a typical day self-driving in San Francisco. #FullyAutonomousFriday
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Cruise self-driving cars rely on tiled maps to maneuver San Francisco. These 2D maps are essential for geolocation requests, but use excessive RAM and require expensive Disk I/O operations to load map data. Our Product Eng team developed a solution:
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Next up: Atlanta! 🙌 Today we begin our initial testing across the city and we can’t wait to see what each neighborhood has to offer. More to come soon.
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We're thrilled to be the first-ever @SFGiants jersey patch partner 🙌 Here’s how we drew inspiration from the ballpark to create a patch worthy of our hometown team.
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Drivers encounter double-parked vehicles in San Francisco 24 times more often than in the suburbs. For engineers designing Cruise self-driving cars, this means solving complex on-road challenges, like navigating around tow trucks, moving vans, and even triple parked cars.
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We’re getting bigger in Texas… Introducing our next 2 cities— Houston and Dallas!
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UPDATE: As of last night, fared rides are now rolling out to our customers in SF. If you’re waiting to take your first driverless ride, we’re inviting more people into our AVs each week, so sit tight— it’ll be worth it! 😉
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1) MAJOR NEWS! We’re now the first and only company approved to operate a fared driverless ridehail service in a major U.S. city after receiving the Driverless Deployment Permit from @californiapuc ! Read more in our blog: and🧵⬇️
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They went viral for remotely hacking a Jeep in 2015, and now @0xcharlie and @nudehaberdasher have built up the Cruise Security team to keep other hackers out. Here are behind-the-scenes details on how Chris, Charlie & the team work to protect our AVs:
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Today we begin initial testing in Raleigh, North Carolina as we continue to expose our tech to diverse conditions across the country. Stay tuned for more updates as we work toward bringing our driverless tech to more people in more places.
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San Francisco, don’t ever change! Thanks to our own multi-talented @whatrocks for the perfect tune 🎶
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(3/3) Our heartfelt concern and focus is the wellbeing of the person who was injured and we are actively working with police to help identify the responsible driver.
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We’re thrilled to begin our manual data collection in both Seattle and Washington, D.C. this week. Stay tuned for more updates soon.
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Today, we’re taking an important next step in returning to our mission: we're reintroducing a small fleet of human-driven vehicles in select cities - starting in Phoenix. These vehicles will create maps and gather road information, a critical step for validating future…
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Did you know in one year Cruise drives more miles in SF than the average human driver does in a lifetime? Look at how Cruise mapping vehicles see the world through LiDAR sensors. 👀 Can you guess all these SF spots?
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What does it take to go driverless in San Francisco? Our path to driverless is 5 years and 2 million miles in the making. See how much ground we’ve covered already.
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Thrilled to announce @olivercameron and the @voyage team are joining Cruise's mission to build safer & more accessible transportation. An exciting future lies ahead and we need the best talent in the industry working together to make it happen. Welcome!
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Happy National Autonomous Vehicle Day! Someday, it will just be…everyday…
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Cruise Technical Leads @KarlKFI and Buck Wallander explain how private hybrid networks securely connect Cruise vehicles to workloads on #kubernetes in the cloud:
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Hi, Charlotte! 👋 We’re thrilled to launch our initial testing across the Queen City today. More details to come as we work towards going driverless in your city. Stay tuned!
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Driving safely in the city means you're always on your toes (or wheels)! Here's a typical 5 am scene in SF. Watch us smoothly navigate around three fire trucks and two double-parked cars. #FullyAutonomousFriday
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Due to the overwhelming response, we have added a banana for scale.
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(2/3) In that spirit, we have decided to proactively pause driverless operations across all of our fleets while we take time to examine our processes, systems, and tools and reflect on how we can better operate in a way that will earn public trust.
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Another day, another obstacle. No sweat for a Cruise AV, even when a perpendicular truck takes up half the road. #FullyAutonomousFriday
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2,000,000 driverless miles! As sweet as the first million, just 5X faster 🙌
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Who wore it better?
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Just announced at #SXSW : Our new, purpose-built vehicles will begin testing on Austin streets in the coming weeks and become available for rides soon! Check them out:
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Every time you choose to carpool, walk, or take public transit, you reduce carbon pollution in our city. At Cruise, we’re committed to doing our part, which is why we’ve made a deliberate choice to make our entire fleet of self-driving cars all-electric.
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Sometimes, vision is not enough (especially at night). On this fully driverless ride, our perception stack picks up this cyclist at 0:17, well before they enter our view. #FullyAutonomousFriday
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Our purpose-built AV, the Origin, is on track for production! While we eagerly await its arrival for commercial use in the coming months, you may see a human-operated Origin prototype driving on the streets of SF. 👀
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@_bennettm_ Sensor data showed our car accurately tracking all pedestrians and making decisions to minimize risk for both passengers and pedestrians, in line with our safety design.
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We're excited to team up with @DoorDash to pilot autonomous food & grocery delivery in San Francisco starting early this year! Get your favorite meals even faster and more efficiently thanks to Cruise. Join our team to help innovate.
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Today, we’re excited to announce an additional $1.35B investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund as we look ahead toward scaling our public self-driving ridehail service. What a way to start the year! 🚀
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(2/3) The AV then braked aggressively to minimize the impact. The driver of the other vehicle fled the scene, and at the request of the police the AV was kept in place.
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Tight squeeze between trucks? No problem. That's smooth, smart, intuitive driving. #FullyAutonomousFriday
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Self-driving deliveries have arrived in #Scottsdale , AZ! 🛒 Learn more about our @Walmart delivery powered by Cruise >
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A view of San Francisco you probably haven’t seen before. 🚗😎 Join us in solving the engineering challenge of our generation.
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@friscolive415 Hi @friscolive415 - A large festival posed wireless bandwidth constraints causing delayed connectivity to our vehicles. We are actively investigating and working on solutions to prevent this from happening again. We apologize to those who were impacted.
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Before the end of the year, we’ll send cars out onto the streets of SF — without gasoline & without anyone at the wheel. Because safely removing the driver is the true benchmark of a self-driving car & because burning fossil fuels is no way to build the future of transportation.
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It’s not the force… it’s just our automatic door closing technology. 🤖⭐
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We’re thrilled that Dan Ammann will be joining our co-founders Kyle Vogt and Dan Kan as Cruise’s new CEO. Dan shares our commitment to deploying the world’s best autonomous vehicles at scale. Dan is up for the mission, are you?
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Cruise VP of Engineering Mo ElShenawy on why the best company cultures are high-performance with humanity: "They're inclusive, respectful, open, and peer-driven." Here's how we've cultivated a peer-driven engineering culture at Cruise:
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Even self-driving vehicles can daydream. Good luck @NASAPersevere , from all your electric cousins back on Earth.
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Meet Poppy, one of our favorite self-driving vehicles who’s making friends across #SanFrancisco . Follow her adventures @PoppyTheAV on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. #PoppyAndTheCity 🎬 Watch the full-length version here:
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Our mission is to deliver better transportation to everyone. Today we’re announcing @rta_dubai selected Cruise to be its exclusive provider of self-driving ridehail services, making Dubai our first international destination for commercial deployment.
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From the Mission to the Marina, and the Ballpark to the Sunset, our new service map keeps getting bigger! Available immediately for Cruisers and rolling out to the public at a later date. Stay tuned.
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As @rihanna once said, "Shut Up and Drive". 🎶 🚗
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Our AVs encounter 3.3K complex double-parked vehicles every week driving in San Francisco. We refer to them as "complex" because in order to pass them, we need to drive into the oncoming lane. Check out a compilation of complex double-parked vehicles for #FullyAutonomousFriday ⬇️
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Next stop— Austin and Phoenix!
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Some fun news - @Cruise is bringing driverless rides to Austin and Phoenix later this year.
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Today, @Walmart joins @Microsoft @GM @Honda & institutional investors in a previously announced funding round bringing the combined equity investment to $2.75B. Redefining transportation requires strategic partnerships. Thrilled Walmart is on the ride!
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We’re testing @Cruise autonomous tech on @Chevrolet Bolt EVs on roads in Scottsdale, AZ, in addition to San Fran.
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While we continue our investigation in partnership with city officials and regulators, we wanted to provide an update on our preliminary analysis of the incident. Read more here
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Why is testing in a complex, urban environment important? One word: intersections. Intersections account for 40% of all reported crashes and over 20% of traffic fatalities in the U.S. It’s one of the reasons we chose to test in cities from day one.
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1,000,000 MILES 🤩 In just 15 months, we’ve logged more than a million driverless miles, navigating many complex urban environments! Thanks to all our riders who helped us unlock this milestone. Here’s to millions (and millions and millions...) more.
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2018 was the deadliest year for pedestrians and cyclists since 1990. Every day, 17 pedestrians and two cyclists were killed on average in traffic crashes. Why do we put up with a system that puts the most vulnerable road users at risk? Watch how Cruise AVs share the road.
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(2/6) Ultimately, we develop and deploy autonomous vehicles in an effort to save lives. In the incident being reviewed by the DMV, a human hit and run driver tragically struck and propelled the pedestrian into the path of the AV.
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Enjoying our first day out and about in Nashville! ☀️☺️
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We’re headed to the Music City 🎸 Testing starts tomorrow in Nashville, with more cities to be announced soon!
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Since @kvogt first hopped in a fully driverless ride over two months ago, we’ve been busy! ✅ 350+ rides completed ✅ 200+ employee riders ✅ ~9K miles All fully driverless (and fully awesome). We can’t wait to bring this experience to the rest of San Francisco. Stay tuned!
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On your mark, get set, go! Our cars are ready to get you from one event, to the next. Will we be picking you up this weekend?
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A big moment for @kvogt and all of us here at Cruise. A huge step forward on our mission. We can't wait for the day that 1 ride becomes 1M!
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1) Monday night was a night I’ll never forget. I’m still speechless. I got to take the first ride, by anyone, ever, in a *driverless* robotaxi on the streets of San Francisco. This was officially ride #1 for @Cruise . Full story and vids below.
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(3/3) This isn't related to any new on-road incidents, and supervised AV operations will continue. We think it’s the right thing to do during a period when we need to be extra vigilant when it comes to risk, relentlessly focused on safety, & taking steps to rebuild public trust.
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Ready for another Origin update? Here’s a sneak peak of an early Origin Mobility test, which will improve transportation equity by providing much-needed features for wheelchair users.
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12 to 27% of all urban car-bike collisions occur because of "dooring"—when a car door swings open and hits a cyclist. Unlike a traditional car, the Cruise Origin’s doors don’t hinge outward. This may seem like a small change, but it has a big impact.
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Big news today! One step closer to achieving our mission to make transportation safer, better and more affordable in cities with our fleet of all-electric, self-driving and shared vehicles. @TheGSix , Senior VP, Government Affairs and Social Impact reacts.
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From the Mission in the morning, to the Sunset at sunset, we're now covering all of SF, all hours of the day😎
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Kyle Vogt
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Well folks, we did it. I have been waiting for this day for almost 10 years. I am proud to announce @Cruise is now running 24/7 across all of San Francisco! This is a pivotal moment for our business. Let me tell you why 👇(1/6)
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To @kvogt —we know today’s news was a long time in the making. A really long time. Here’s to dreaming big! 🌟
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Principal Security Engineer @collinrm dives into Cruise’s efforts around continuous firmware security analysis and introduces our FwAnalyzer tool (now available on our GitHub page) in our latest post:
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Can’t get enough of #UnderTheHood ? We just dropped a series of long drive videos like this one of our AVs cruising around San Francisco handling all kinds of challenging scenarios and tricky maneuvers. Links in thread ⬇️
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Pretty cool seeing @POTUS next to our all-electric, self-driving and shared Cruise Origin at @GM 's #FactoryZERO as he challenged America to lead the race to win an all-electric future. Challenge accepted!
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