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General Motors Pulls the Plug on Self-driving Cars

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In a surprising announcement via Slack on Tuesday, Cruise CEO Marc Whitten revealed that General Motors (GM) will no longer fund the self-driving car subsidiary. Instead, Cruise will be absorbed into GM’s broader operations, aligning with the automaker’s focus on developing driver assistance features and eventually fully autonomous personal vehicles. The news left many Cruise employees blindsided, particularly as they had been following a roadmap to launch a driverless service in Houston by 2025.

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Who woulda thunk it: Tesla crash highlights real problem behind self-driving cars

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By Douglas Rushkoff

Updated 8:06 PM ET, Fri July 1, 2016

CNN)We think of automobiles as American as baseball, apple pie, and hotdogs – or at least that’s what the car advertisers have gotten us to believe.

But as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s investigation into a fatal self-driving car accident should remind us, the automobile’s centrality to the American way of life was an expensive and political battle with nearly uncountable human casualties.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/01/opinions/tesla-self-driving-car-fatality-rushkoff/