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General Motors

General Motors makes 2 robots we track. The furthest along, Cruise, is at stage 5 of 5: regulator-cleared or mass market.

Website: gm.com
Based in: United States
In our records as: General Motors (Cruise); General Motors
Latest milestone: 18 Aug 2026

01Robots

What General Motors makes

Each robot's stage is worked out from its dated, sourced milestones by the same published rules, whoever the maker is.

CruiseSelf-driving · Robotaxi service (closed)Stage 5 of 5 · Regulator-cleared or mass marketCruise was General Motors' robotaxi company. It gave driverless rides in San Francisco until a 2023 crash, and GM shut the robotaxi business down in December 2024.Not disclosedThe full record
Super CruiseSelf-driving · Hands-free driver assistStage 5 of 5 · Regulator-cleared or mass marketSuper Cruise lets drivers of some GM cars take their hands off the wheel on approved roads. It is not self-driving: the driver must keep watching the road at all times.Offered on more than 20 GM models (Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC and others) in North America, on compatible roads.The full record

02Track record

Every dated event

18 Aug 2026MilestoneSuper Cruise
GM said it was testing its next system, which will allow eyes-off driving, on hundreds of prototype cars.
GM newsroom, 18 Aug 2026Company-reported
28 April 2026MilestoneSuper Cruise
GM said 30 to 40 percent of owners kept paying for Super Cruise after the three free years ended.
Repairer Driven News, 1 May 2026Company-reported
28 April 2026MilestoneSuper Cruise
GM said drivers had done 1 billion hands-free miles with Super Cruise, across nearly 750,000 cars of 23 models in North America.
Repairer Driven News, 1 May 2026Company-reported
22 Oct 2025MilestoneSuper Cruise
GM said it would add 'eyes-off' driving on highways from 2028, using lidar (laser sensors), radar and cameras. At that point Super Cruise had done over 700 million hands-free miles on 23 GM vehicles.
Electrek, 22 Oct 2025Company-reported
4 Feb 2025SetbackCruise
Cruise cut nearly half of its staff. GM took full ownership and moved the work toward self-driving tech for personal cars.
TechCrunch, 4 Feb 2025
Dec 2024SetbackCruise
GM said it would stop funding the Cruise robotaxi business, citing competition and high costs.
Axios, 11 Dec 2024
Nov 2024SetbackCruise
Cruise admitted to filing a false report to influence a federal investigation, and agreed to pay a $500,000 criminal fine.
TechCrunch, 15 Nov 2024
12 March 2024SafetySuper Cruise
In the first IIHS (an insurance-industry safety group) ratings of how driver-assist systems keep drivers alert, Super Cruise was the only one of 14 systems to meet every test for handling a driver who stops responding. IIHS faulted it for changing lanes without any driver input.
IIHS, 12 Mar 2024
2024SafetyCruise
NHTSA fined Cruise $1.5 million.
TechCrunch, 15 Nov 2024
24 Oct 2023SetbackCruise
California's DMV suspended Cruise's permits to run driverless cars, after a crash in which a Cruise car trapped a pedestrian.
TechCrunch, 24 Oct 2023
2 Oct 2023SafetyCruise
A Cruise robotaxi ended up on top of a woman who had first been hit by another car. She was trapped underneath it.
TechCrunch, 24 Oct 2023
Oct 2023SafetyCruise
The US road-safety agency NHTSA opened an investigation into Cruise's self-driving system after several incidents with pedestrians.
TechCrunch, 24 Oct 2023
Aug 2023RegulatorCruise
California's utilities regulator (CPUC) let Cruise and Waymo charge fares for driverless rides at any hour across San Francisco.
Engadget, 11 Aug 2023
2023MilestoneCruise
Cruise offered rides to the public for a short time in 2023, then stopped.
Axios, 11 Dec 2024
22 July 2021MilestoneSuper Cruise
GM said an upgraded Super Cruise that can change lanes on its own would come to six more vehicles in 2022, including the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups. It worked on more than 200,000 miles of US roads.
TechCrunch, 22 July 2021Company-reported
6 June 2018MilestoneSuper Cruise
Super Cruise was on sale, but only on the Cadillac CT6.
TechCrunch, 6 June 2018
10 April 2017MilestoneSuper Cruise
GM said Super Cruise would arrive first on the Cadillac CT6 sedan in fall 2017, using cameras in the steering wheel to watch the driver's head.
TechCrunch, 10 Apr 2017Company-reported
2016MilestoneCruise
GM bought most of Cruise's shares in 2016. By early 2025 it had spent close to $10 billion on the company.
TechCrunch, 4 Feb 2025

03Money

On the stock market

General Motors trades as GM on NYSE. General Motors Q2 2026 results release, Form 8-K exhibit (SEC filing), 21 July 2026

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