Talk:Cruise (autonomous vehicle)

Latest comment: 1 year ago by 79.206.204.48 in topic What is "near"?!

Change to Cruise Origin section

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Hey everyone, I added a sentence to the end of the Cruise Origin section about Cruise's recent partnership with Honda as my first Wikipedia edit. I also added a reference. Please let me know if I missed anything! Helpmeimnew (talk) 21:07, 5 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Some proposed changes

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Request: Change article title from "Cruise Automation" to "Cruise (company)"

Supporting references:

http://getcruise.com https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2019/07/29/cruises-modified-strategy-marks-a-mega-phase-shift-in-self-driving-car-industry/#15de90383ea9 https://twitter.com/Cruise https://medium.com/cruise/the-next-steps-to-scale-start-in-san-francisco-713315f3a142 https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/27/heres-how-cruises-autonomous-cars-navigate-double-parked-cars/ https://www.businessinsider.com/self-driving-car-company-executives-who-is-running-them-2019-7

Etemadia (talk) 16:44, 24 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

Contested deletion

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This article should not be speedy deleted as having no substantive content, because I am currently working on getting the content up! Sorry for this inconvenience.

COI edit requests

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Hi! COI editor for Cruise here. (GM is a client of Fleishman Hillard, a sister agency of my employer, Porter Novelli.) Requesting some edits to this article:

  • Adding to infobox:
| num_employees = 1800[1]
| num_employees_year = 2020
  • Adding to "History":
Cruise raised an additional $1.15 billion in new equity in May 2019, bringing its total valuation to $19 billion.[2][3]
  • In "Testing and development", deleting:
CEO Kyle Vogt has stated that commercial deployment will occur via a ride-sharing service platform,[4] but what platform remains unknown.
(Seems to me that a YouTube video of the CEO is a subpar source, and I think the paragraph below provides alternative specifics.)
  • In "Testing and development", adding:
In January 2020, the company showcased the Cruise Origin, a Level 4–5 driverless vehicle,[5] intended to be used for a ride hailing service.[6] The Origin is purpose-built as a self-driving vehicle, rather than retrofitted from a non-autonomous vehicle, and contains no manual steering controls.[7] Costing approximately $50,000 to manufacture at scale,[8] the vehicle is all-electric and designed to have a one-million-mile lifespan.[9] Cruise announced that future Origin vehicles would be manufactured at GM's Detroit-Hamtramck plant.[10][11]
In October 2020, the California Department of Motor Vehicles gave Cruise a permit to test fully driverless vehicles.[12] Cruise began testing vehicles without a human safety driver present on the streets of San Francisco in December 2020.[13]

I appreciate your time and feedback. Thanks! Mary Gaulke (talk) 14:10, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Those look fine to me. Greglocock (talk) 02:59, 17 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Greglocock: Thank you! Are you OK with {{request edit/proceed}} and me making the edits? Mary Gaulke (talk) 15:10, 17 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
Sure. Greglocock (talk) 21:52, 17 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ Wayland, Michael (14 May 2020). "GM's self-driving unit Cruise to cut 8% of staff". CNBC. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  2. ^ Hawkins, Andrew J. (7 May 2019). "GM's self-driving division Cruise raises another $1.15 billion". The Verge. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  3. ^ Marshall, Aarian (7 May 2019). "Cruise's $1 Billion Infusion Shows the Stakes in Self-Driving Tech". Wired. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  4. ^ Full Throttle on Self-Driving Cars. July 17, 2017.
  5. ^ Howard, Bill (23 January 2020). "GM's Cruise Origin Is an Autonomous Vehicle From the Future". Extreme Tech. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  6. ^ Baldwin, Roberto (22 January 2020). "Cruise Unveils Origin, a Self-Driving Vehicle with No Steering Wheel or Pedals". Car and Driver. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  7. ^ Hawkins, Andrew J. (21 January 2020). "Exclusive Look at Cruise's First Driverless Car Without a Steering Wheel or Pedals". The Verge. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  8. ^ Priddle, Alisa (22 January 2020). "GM's Cruise Origin Self-Driving Pod Has No Steering Wheel, No Pedals, and No Driver". MotorTrend. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  9. ^ Wayland, Michael; Kolodny, Lora (23 January 2020). "Debut of GM's Cruise Origin shows the future of ride-sharing, autonomous vehicles is a box". CNBC. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  10. ^ Hawkins, Andrew J. (27 January 2020). "GM will spend $2.2 billion to build electric and autonomous vehicles at Detroit plant". The Verge. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  11. ^ Hawkins, Andrew J. (16 October 2020). "GM rebrands its Detroit-Hamtramck plant as 'Factory Zero' for electric and autonomous vehicles". The Verge. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  12. ^ Hawkins, Andrew J. (9 December 2020). "Cruise is now testing fully driverless cars in San Francisco". The Verge. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  13. ^ Said, Carolyn (9 December 2020). "Cruise deploys true robot cars in S.F. — no backup drivers behind wheel". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
Hi @MaryGaulke:I've changed the flag to proceed per Greclocock's approval above, but please replace the word "showcased" with "exhibited" per WP:PEACOCK. Thank you! Orvilletalk 07:50, 19 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
Thank you both! I've made the updates, swapping in "exhibited" as directed. Mary Gaulke (talk) 15:12, 19 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Cruise vehicle names

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Cruise names its AVs to distinguish them in the garage,[1] although there is little secondary coverage.[2] The 2016 and 2017 California disengagement reports provide the following names, license plates, and dates when they were first tested:

2012 Nissan Leaf[3]
  • "Scarlet" | 7LRW694 | Jun 2015
  • "Quicksilver" | 6UZM026 | Jul 2015
2016 Nissan Leaf[3]
  • "Ironman" | 7PFK602 | Jan 2016
  • "Gargoyle" | 7PFK600 | Mar 2016
  • "Storm" | 7PFK939 | Apr 2016
2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV (G1)[3][4]
  • "Polarbear" | 45257-6C | Oct 2016
  • "Platypus" | 45257-42C | Aug 2016
  • "Caracal" | 45257-33D | Jul 2016
  • "Charlie" | 45257-43D | Jul 2016
  • "Osprey" | 45257-29D | Aug 2016
  • "Cheetah" | 45257-62E | Jun 2016
  • "Lynx" | 45257-13C | Aug 2016
  • "Leopard" | 45257-81C | Jun 2016
  • "Moa" | 45257-9C | Aug 2016
  • "Redwolf" | 45257-57D | Sep 2016
  • "Pronghorn" | 45257-78C | Aug 2016
  • "Beluga" | 45257-73E | Oct 2016
  • "Mongoose" | 45257-60D | Oct 2016
  • "Macaw" | 45257-61D | Nov 2016
  • "Penguin" | 45257-70C | Nov 2016
  • "Tamarin" | 45257-75G | Nov 2016
  • "Numbat" | 45257-72G | Nov 2016
  • "Albatross" | 45257-98D | Nov 2016
  • "Wombat" | 45257-73D | Nov 2016
  • "Antelope" | 45257-78B | Nov 2016
  • "Seahorse | | Dec 2016
  • "Oryx" | | Feb 2017
  • "Marmot" | | Feb 2017
2018 Chevrolet Bolt EV (G2)[4]
  • "Littlekern" | | Nov 2017
  • "Ayeaye" | | Jun 2017
  • "Baboon" | | Sep 2017
  • "Hawksbill" | | Oct 2017
  • "Beaver" | | Oct 2017
  • "Teal" | | Sep 2017
  • "Elephant"
  • "Porpoise" | | Oct 2017
  • "Seladang" | | Sep 2017
  • "Wolverine" | | Aug 2017
  • "Hippo" | | Sep 2017
  • "Voyager" | | Sep 2017
  • "Condor" | | Sep 2017
  • "Gorilla" | | Aug 2017
  • "Bolty McBoltface"[5] | 45257-40I[6] | Sep 2017
  • "Scorpion" | | Sep 2017
  • "Oatmeal" | | Oct 2017
  • "Bear" | | Oct 2017
  • "Chinchilla" | | Aug 2017
  • "Platypus" | | Jul 2017

References

  1. ^ Hawkins, Andrew J. (February 1, 2017). "General Motors has some fierce (and nerdy) codenames for its self-driving cars". The Verge. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  2. ^ Felton, Ryan (February 1, 2017). "General Motors' Autonomous Car Names, Ranked". Jalopnik. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Ostojic, Sasha (December 22, 2016). Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program Annual Disengagement Report (PDF) (Report). California Department of Motor Vehicles. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2018.
  4. ^ a b Boniske, Albert (December 29, 2017). Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program Annual Disengagement Report (PDF) (Report). California Department of Motor Vehicles. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 11, 2018.
  5. ^ Apparent homage to Boaty McBoatface
  6. ^ Jeremy Conrad [@nomadicnerd] (February 3, 2018). ""Bolty McBoltFace" 😂 Well done Cruise naming team. The future is a strange hilarious place sometimes" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 17:03, 8 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

This is trivia to the nth degree.Greglocock (talk) 02:50, 9 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Origin

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To document the early stages of Cruise, I will upload city records of Kyle Vogt's purchase of 54 Gilbert Street San Francisco CA in September 2013. Kyle Vogt rented the property months before the purchase. I will also upload a picture taken in July of 2013 of the inside of the garage showing Kyle's Audi being modified for self driving capability. 32174168Z (talk) 00:48, 24 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

What is "near"?!

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From the article: " at the intersection of Gough and Fulton near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco".....the intersection is here: osm.org/go/TZHvRtEFE--?m= .....in my eyes not so near to the park.... --79.206.204.48 (talk) 13:28, 28 February 2023 (UTC)Reply