来自GM巡航的自动雪佛兰螺栓电动车。
Cruise，旧金山的一般汽车自动车辆（通用汽车）（通用汽车），筹集了115亿美元的资金，增加了巡航估值至19亿美元。该轮的投资者包括T. Rowe价格员工，本田，软银视觉基金和通用汽车。
邮轮表示，去年推出了7250亿美元的资本。2018年10月，巡航宣布将从本田获得20亿美元over the next 12 years. The first chunk of that investment was a $750 million equity investment that at the time gave Honda a 5.7% ownership stake in Cruise. As part of the deal, GM and Honda will collaborate on a purpose-built autonomous vehicle that can serve a “wide variety” of use cases and be manufactured at high volumes.
In May 2018, theSoftBank Vision基金宣布将投资250亿美元的巡航。When the deal closed, Softbank invested $900 million. Once Cruise’s autonomous vehicles are ready for commercial deployment, Softbank will complete the second investment of $1.35 billion, the companies said at the time.
Another huge milestone along our journey. We’re delighted to add new investors, and further commitment from existing partners, who share our vision for a safer, all-electric future.
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— Cruise (@Cruise)2019年5月7日
“在大规模规模中开发和部署自动驾驶车辆是我们这一代的工程挑战，”克鲁斯首席执行官丹尼曼在宣布最新的资金发言中表示。“随着我们追求我们的使命，我们拥有深入的资源是一个关键的竞争优势。”
通用汽车巡航陷入了先前声明的时间表，在2019年的某个时候推出商业服务。“根据最近的一份报告，巡航将围绕2019年的历程中的约1,000次招聘Reuters。邮轮还在11月宣布，计划扩展到西雅图。当时，游轮说没有计划在西雅图测试其自治车辆。在西雅图扩展的目的是在2019年底之前吸引100-200工程师。
GM于2016年购买邮轮，以10亿美元用于开始自动驾驶努力。Cruise’s main competition is Waymo, which last year had the best-performing autonomous vehicles in California with one disengagement every 11,017 miles, according to a report from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles. Of course, Waymo has had quite the head start on Cruise, which had the second-best performing autonomous vehicles in California last year with one disengagement every 5,204.9 miles.
Cruise had 162 self-driving cars operating in California that drove a reported 447,621 miles. That was more than triple the mileage from 2017 for Cruise, which had 0.19 disengagements per 1,000 miles. That is also a significant improvement from Cruise’s 0.8 disengagements per 1,000 miles in 2017.
Cruise does most of its testing in San Francisco, which is offers a much tougher driving environment than the Silicon Valley suburbs that are the main test bed for Waymo’s vehicles. Kyle Vogt, Cruise’s co-founder, president, and chief technology officer在2017年说“旧金山的每分钟测试都与郊区的一次测试一样有价值。”
2019年4月，Uber Technology Inc.的先进技术集团筹集了10亿美元的开发自动驾驶汽车。Investors in that round included Toyota Motor Corp., DENSO Corp., and the SoftBank Vision Fund. The investment is intended to help Uber ATG further develop self-driving hardware and software and to scale up for production.
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