RoboTaxi, a Silicon Valley star, had his license revoked, stopped building production cars, and returned to the pre-liberation period overnight

An accident made the unmanned car in Silicon Valley land overnight and return to the pre-liberation period.

This time, even the mass production of new cars was stopped.

Recently, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revoked GM Cruise's license to operate autonomous vehicles.

GM then announced that it would suspend production of its self-driving model, the Origin, its first scalable vehicle designed specifically for autonomous driving.

Just a few hundred vehicles were produced, and they faced the fate of stopping production, which reflects the dilemma of the entire industry this year:

Not long after the unmanned car was fully opened in Silicon Valley, heavyweight players were forced to suspend operations.

The car is in awkward places, and so are the players.

The road is experiencing twists and turns, and the future is bright and there is no future in sight for the time being.

GM announced that mass production of its self-driving Origin autonomous vehicle has been suspended

After a number of accidents involving unmanned vehicles, California DMV recently decided to revoke GM's Cruise unmanned vehicle operation license due to safety concerns.

GM has also begun to revalue its autonomous driving business, and recently Cruise's CEO announced that it would suspend production of the Origin driverless car, saying that it was a joint decision between the parent company GM and Cruise.

The Origin is a model designed for autonomous driving in the true sense of the word, with no pedals, no steering wheel, and can carry passengers and deliver deliveries.

The exterior and interior layout are different from those of common Robotaxi vehicles.

Common Robotaxi vehicles today, including Cruise's Cruise 101 (pictured above), which previously operated in San Francisco, don't look much different from taxis. And the Cruise-designed Origin looks more like a microbus:

The black-and-white vehicle in the picture is the Origin

The doors of the passenger car are opened and closed by sliding to the sides, and there are two seats inside:

Caring models are also designed for people with reduced mobility:

According to Cruise's official website, Origin can accept up to five orders per trip, and as you can see from the picture, there are four locked drawers, and customers will be authenticated when picking up the goods, but Cruise did not show more details (such as how to take orders from five different customers with only four drawers).

It is clear that the Origin can be regarded as a kind of "evolution" of the traditional Robotaxi car in terms of design and use, and it is a future-oriented product of Cruise, and there are high hopes for it.

Hundreds of units had already been produced, and it was undoubtedly a "difficult decision" to announce the discontinuation of production at this time. Cruise also added:

A few hundred of them are more than enough.

It is better not to speak at all.

Some media have previously reported that the Cruise unmanned vehicle is not really self-driving, and requires frequent manual remote intervention, according to statistics, it needs to be intervened every 2.5-5 miles (4-8 kilometers).

The Cruise CEO recently came out in response that the media had only guessed half right, and that the reality was that it was every 4-5 miles.

Up to eight kilometers requires a manual remote intervention, and sometimes even if there is a problem, employees need to run to the site to operate the steering wheel and drive away the vehicle (the vehicles currently operated have a steering wheel).

Traditional forms of unmanned vehicles are not very capable of doing it, and accidents have occurred frequently recently.

And the Origin doesn't even have a steering wheel, and there is a question mark over whether the hundreds of vehicles that are currently "more than enough" can be put on the road.

Obviously, GM Cruise's current "diamond diamond" can't do "porcelain work". After Silicon Valley fully opened up unmanned vehicles, it worked hard every day, and even caused deaths.

Unmanned vehicle accidents are frequent in Silicon Valley, and the authorities have tightened supervision

In mid-August this year, Silicon Valley completely lifted the ban on unmanned vehicles, allowing unmanned vehicles to operate and test regardless of time period and road section.

There was a sensation on both sides of the ocean, believing that this was a key milestone in autonomous driving.

The purpose of regulatory liberalization is, of course, to speed up the landing of unmanned vehicles, but the premise is that unmanned vehicles can ensure safety and reliability. As a result, only a week after it opened, Cruise unmanned vehicles continued to cause accidents:

First, 10 unmanned vehicles suddenly stopped en masse, causing traffic jams. Cruise employees had to rush to the scene after nearly half an hour of traffic jam to manually move the car.

A few days later, he crashed into a fire truck on a mission with passengers in the car, who were treated at the scene and taken to the hospital.

The DMV, which later revoked the Cruise operating license, set its sights on Cruise at this time and began an investigation.

Cruise was immediately asked to scale back its operations, halve the number of vehicles, and set a cap on the number of vehicles it can operate:

No more than 50 vehicles during the day and 150 vehicles at night until the survey is completed.

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At this sensitive period under investigation, the Cruise unmanned vehicle once again "devours the master":

In September, two unmanned vehicles blocked the ambulance, causing the injured to miss the best time for first aid, and eventually unfortunately passed away.

Public opinion was in an uproar, and people gathered in front of the Cruise headquarters to demonstrate, and the official investigation was not completed, and civil forces participated again.

In October, the Cruise unmanned vehicle dragged and crushed a woman, which became the fuse for the DMV to stop the operation and test of the Cruise unmanned vehicle.

The DMV argued that the continued operation of Cruise would pose a threat to public safety, and eventually withdrew the operating license, citing relevant regulations.

Cruise is not the only autonomous driving player under investigation.

Tesla's latest quarterly report shows that federal authorities have stepped up potential investigations into its AutoPilot and FSD (Full Self-Driving) systems, and have received subpoenas in addition to requests for information.

On the surface, it seems that the official investigation of the company, as Tesla said in the report, may have a negative impact on the company.

However, the investigation and temporary restrictions are actually a good thing, although in the short term it has hit people's confidence in autonomous driving, but in the long run, it is conducive to guiding the reasonable development of new species, helping autonomous driving adjust its direction and landing methods, and better provide services to people.

Now that the planes are starting to take off, the runway and route planning can be carried out in a targeted manner.