Cruise unveils its driverless Origin car for shared ownership
Autonomous vehicle startup Cruise has revealed its first self-driving, electric car designed for shared ownership, which has no steering wheel or pedals.
Cruise was able to rid the Origin car of an engine, steering wheel, rearview mirrors, pedals and windshield wipers, to leave a spacious cabin "designed around the rider".
Developed in partnership with General Motors (GM) and Honda, Origin is the startup's vision of what transportation systems would look like if designers could start from scratch, with no idea of pre-existing vehicles.
"Fifty years ago, cars looked like, in a word, cars," said Cruise CEO Dan Ammann. "Fifty years, and all we've gotten is one incremental change after another."
"We're still cramped in a tiny space. We're still burning fossil fuels, polluting our cities and destroying our planet. We're still spending hours out of our day stuck in traffic, inventing new swear words. We're still dying at a rate of more than 3,000 people per day," he continued. "We didn't just want to improve on the car," he added. "We wanted to reimagine transportation as if the car had never existed."
Described by Cruise as "an experience that you share" rather than a car that you buy, the prototype vehicle aims to encourage a more affordable and collaborative style of transportation instead of individual ownership.
If widely adopted, this would help alleviate congestion and contribute to lessening emissions...
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