Cruise tweeted about the autonomous testing expansion, which uses Chevrolet Bolt all-electric vehicles, and which adds to the core fleet of testing vehicles already operating in San Francisco.
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GM’s putting its Cruise acquisition to good use in Arizona: The self-driving auto startup acquired by the automaker in March is trialling its tech on public roads in Scottsdale. Now the cars are headed to Scottsdale, Arizona as well.
It is coming to Arizona, for the southwestern state is one of the three states that allow public road testing of autonomous vehicles – the two others being California and Nevada, as per TechnoBuffalo. Google announced plans to test its self-driving cars in the region earlier this year, citing the state’s “extreme temperatures and dust in the air” as a new challenge for the technology.
GM wasted no time integrating Cruise technology into the Bolt prototypes.
Moreover, the autonomous technology driving GM’s electric vehicle is considered pretty standard, with lidar sensors similar to Google’s auto and a trifocal camera setup.
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The Chevy Bolt is set to launch in October.
