I recently drove from Silicon Valley to San Francisco. It started raining on the way and I hadn't thought to take an umbrella. No matter-I had the locations of two parking garages, just a block or so from my destination, preloaded into my navigation app. But both were full, and I found myself circling in stop-and-go traffic around crowded, wet, hilly, construction-heavy San Francisco, hunting for street parking or an open garage for nearly an hour. It was driving hell. ¶ So when I finally arrived at a launch event hosted by Cruise, I couldn't have been more receptive to the company's pitch for the Cruise Origin, a new vehicle that, Cruise executives say, intends to make it so I won't need to drive or park in a city ever again.¶ The Cruise Origin is a six-passenger, autonomous, electric, SUV-size vehicle intended to disrupt not so much the car industry as urban transportation overall. Cruise (mostly owned by GM) does not plan to offer the Origin on the retail market. Instead, it will operate fleets of the vehicles as a ride-sharing service; screens inside are intended to give information about upcoming pickups and drop-offs. ¶ Uber, which launched the last big transportation disruption and has been preparing for the next by investing in its own autonomous vehicle research, might have some scrambling to do. ¶ Since the Origin won't be sold, the company isn't talking about pricing.¶ However, Cruise CEO Dan Ammann did talk a lot about what the designers did to make this autonomous vehicle as inexpensive as possible to manufacture-production costs will be about half of those required to make today's all-electric SUVs, he said. The designers started with a new, all-electric platform, made all the sensor and computer systems modular for easy replacement and upgrading, and took out everything driver-related, including rearview mirrors, windshield wipers, and, of course, the steering wheel.

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无人驾驶乘车共享来了：Cruise 推出原点，一款专为应用程序控制的城市交通而设计的全自动 SUV - [Spectral Lines]

我最近从硅谷开车到旧金山。路上开始下雨，我没想到要带伞。不管 - 我有两个停车场的位置，离我的目的地只有一个街区左右，预加载到我的导航应用程序中。但两个人都满了，我发现自己在拥挤、潮湿、丘陵、建筑繁重的旧金山周围，在走走停停的车流中盘旋，寻找街边停车位或开放式车库近一个小时。它正在驾驶地狱。¶ 因此，当我最终参加由 Cruise 主办的发布会时，我对公司对 Cruise Origin 的宣传非常接受，Cruise 高管表示，这款新车打算制造这样我就不需要了再次在城市中开车或停车。¶ Cruise Origin 是一个六人座，自主的，电动的，SUV 大小的车辆旨在破坏整个城市交通的汽车行业。Cruise（主要由 GM 所有）不打算在零售市场上提供 Origin。相反，它将运营车队作为乘车共享服务；里面的屏幕旨在提供有关即将到来的接送服务的信息。¶ 优步发起了上一次重大的交通中断，并一直在通过投资自己的自动驾驶汽车研究为下一次做准备，可能会有一些争先恐后的事情要做。¶ 由于 Origin 不会出售，公司不会谈论定价。 ¶ 然而，Cruise 首席执行官丹·阿曼 (Dan Ammann) 确实谈到了设计师为使这款自动驾驶汽车的制造成本尽可能低而采取的措施大约是制造当今全电动 SUV 所需的一半，他说。设计师从一个新的全电动平台开始，将所有传感器和计算机系统模块化，以便于更换和升级，并去掉了与驾驶员相关的所有东西，包括后视镜、挡风玻璃雨刷，当然还有方向盘。