Today we are publishing a white paper that presents the human driver crash rate we use as a safety benchmark.

It is the most precise study of human driving performance ever conducted, and it shows @Cruise AVs outperform humans in a comparable driving environment. More 👇(1/5) This groundbreaking study was conducted in partnership with @GM, @UMTRI, and @VTTINEWS over a two year period. The study observed 5.6M miles of human ridehail driving data in San Francisco’s unique and densely-populated urban driving environment. (2/5)getcruise.com/news/blog/2023…

Today we are announcing Nashville 🎸as our next robotaxi-enabled city!

You’ll see driverless @cruise AVs there in a few months.

This brings us from 1 city to 7 in about a year - and there are still more to come…

Here’s how👇(1/9) Our theory was simple: if we can make AVs work in a city like SF - with its fog, hills, & traffic - they’ll work just about anywhere.

We tested this in Phoenix and Austin last year. It took some work to adapt to these new cities, but most of the systems worked well as is. (2/9)

Well folks, we did it. I have been waiting for this day for almost 10 years.

I am proud to announce @Cruise is now running 24/7 across all of San Francisco!

This is a pivotal moment for our business.

Let me tell you why 👇(1/6) Operating robotaxis in SF has become a litmus test for business viability. If it can work here, there’s little doubt it can work just about everywhere. (2/6)

We promised we’d go driverless in 3 cities by the end of this year, and WE DID IT! @Cruise is now live in SF, Austin, and Phoenix.

Folks, we are entering the golden years of AV expansion.

More about this launch: In both Phoenix and Austin we completed our first paid rides for members of the public. Just like in SF, we’ve started with a small service area and will expand gradually. But since we’ve already done this in SF it will happen much faster in these new cities.

Some fun news: I have formally accepted the CEO job at @Cruise once again. I have no doubt it will be a difficult challenge given our very ambitious plans, but I couldn’t imagine doing anything more important or more fun. I’m never going to have trouble getting out of bed.

1) I’m proud to announce that @Cruise is ready to welcome members of the public into our fully driverless vehicles.

Our first few riders certainly had a good time, and we hope you do too. 2) You can read more about this here, including the additional $1.35 billion investment that the SoftBank Vision Fund is making in Cruise as part of this important milestone.

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1) Monday night was a night I’ll never forget. I’m still speechless. I got to take the first ride, by anyone, ever, in a *driverless* robotaxi on the streets of San Francisco.

This was officially ride #1 for @Cruise. Full story and vids below.

2) Around 11pm Monday night we launched an AV without anyone inside for the first time. Until now we've been testing with humans in the driver's or passenger's seat, so this was a first. It began to roam around the city, waiting for a ride request.

1/ Today @Cruise announced over $2 billion of new funding from Microsoft, GM, Honda, and some great institutional investors.

The vanity metric: $30 billion post-money valuation
The real metric: 0 million customers

Wait… what? 2/ Food. Energy. Real Estate. Transportation. The handful of true multi-trillion dollar markets and the building blocks of human life. Substantial change here requires - at minimum - the proverbial “10x better” product. That is a hard thing to build.

1/ Interesting thing happening in the LIDAR industry right now. 5+ companies will soon or have SPAC'd. Their value is based on *projected* revenue that comes from *entirely overlapping* potential customers, with very little discount applied to future projections. Is this bad? 2/ And how did we end up here? SPACs aren't subject to the same effective restrictions on future revenue projections as traditional IPOs. It's totally possible the numbers will be correct for one of these companies. But it's not possible for all to be correct.