Cruise continues to try to clean up the mess from a crash in early October that resulted in a woman being drug 20 feet underneath a driverless car. To hear more about it, you can check out my recent interview with Marketplace’s Matt Levin. We mostly spoke about the piece I wrote about the AV industry’s ongoing trust issues.
BrightDrop, which makes electric delivery vans, fleet management software, and a bunch of other commercial products, spun out of General Motors in early 2021. But now it’s getting spun back in (?) the main company, with GM citing “efficiencies” as the main reason. GM says production of the Zevo electric van will resume in spring 2024.
The news comes as GM and much of the rest of the auto industry has pulled back on some of its more ambitious EV plans in an effort to rein in costs and address softening customer demand.
[pressroom.gm.com]
I got to try out Honda’s new folding scooter, the Motocompacto, and despite feeling incredibly self-conscious riding it, it was a goofy thrill ride. I’ll have more impressions to share later, but one thing I was left wondering was how absolutely scuffed this thing is going to get after a few days in the city.
