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General Motors Co laid out its vision for self-driving vehicles on Thursday, telling investors it planned a commercial launch of fleets of fully autonomous robo-taxis in multiple dense urban environments in 2019.
“If we continue on our current rate of change we will be ready to deploy this technology, in large scale, in the most complex environments, in 2019,” GM President Dan Ammann said on a conference call.
He told investors the lifetime revenue generation of one of its self-driving cars could eventually be in the “several hundred thousands of dollars.” That compares with the $30,000 on average that GM collects today for one of its vehicles, mostly derived from the initial sale.
Are we talking level 5 autonomy? Fully self-driving seems to imply the answer is yes. As others have pointed out in other threds, GM's AV thrusts is all based on EV's, with the current implementation based on a Bolt derivative (40% different parts).
Now if this was Musk making the 2019 claim, I'd view it skeptically. As we have seen again and again, his claims are inspirational rather than something you can count on. GM on the other hand has a proven history of hitting it's dates. Of course, they have been saying, "quarters, not years" up until now. To me, from now until 2019 seems like years or at least more than one year.
Still, this is way sooner than the 2022-2025 I expected.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ving-cars-in-u-s-cities-in-2019-idUSKBN1DU2H0
“If we continue on our current rate of change we will be ready to deploy this technology, in large scale, in the most complex environments, in 2019,” GM President Dan Ammann said on a conference call.
He told investors the lifetime revenue generation of one of its self-driving cars could eventually be in the “several hundred thousands of dollars.” That compares with the $30,000 on average that GM collects today for one of its vehicles, mostly derived from the initial sale.
Are we talking level 5 autonomy? Fully self-driving seems to imply the answer is yes. As others have pointed out in other threds, GM's AV thrusts is all based on EV's, with the current implementation based on a Bolt derivative (40% different parts).
Now if this was Musk making the 2019 claim, I'd view it skeptically. As we have seen again and again, his claims are inspirational rather than something you can count on. GM on the other hand has a proven history of hitting it's dates. Of course, they have been saying, "quarters, not years" up until now. To me, from now until 2019 seems like years or at least more than one year.
Still, this is way sooner than the 2022-2025 I expected.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ving-cars-in-u-s-cities-in-2019-idUSKBN1DU2H0
