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GM Robo Cars Coming 2019
Get ready, people. The Jetson’s Era is right around the corner.
Starting next year, General Motors will begin deploying a fleet of up to 2,500 self-driving cars that will have no steering wheel or pedals, making them the first true robo-taxis to hit the streets.
The vehicles, unveiled today, represent the fourth generation of GM’s autonomous vehicle (AV) technology since it acquired Cruise Automation, a Silicon Valley startup, in early 2016.
GM is escalating its high-stakes battle with Waymo, Google’s former self-driving car unit, to commercialize the world’s first fully self-driving cars. Google was the early mover back in 2009, igniting a tech race that represents the biggest change in personal transportation since horses were replaced with horseless carriages more than a century ago. Dozens of companies, including BMW, Volvo, Mercedes, Uber, Tesla, and Baidu, have joined the hunt but at the moment, it looks like a two-horse race between Waymo and GM.
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TEAM Workin 4 A Livin remains vigilantly committed to protect people who are workin 4 a livin, and most especially our UAW Members from the coming autonomous robots intended to replace not only vehicle drivers, as indicated in this article, but us manufacturing workers ourselves.
To that end, Workin 4 A Livin has a Platform-Plank to immediately, upon election to leadership, commission a task force to assess what protections can be sought. This highly capable task force will be required to publicly publish monthly updates on their progress.
This is what you can expect to be getting from Union leadership with a LABOR ETHOS.
From TEAM Workin 4 A Livin – Caucus
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