Despite Missing Early Milestones, Mary Barra Says GM's Autonomous Vehicle Program Is On Target

A recent interview with GM CEO Mary Barra from Axios has provided some of the executive’s insights about full self-driving solutions, competition from Tesla, and the Detroit-based company’s strategy for the deployment of its autonomous driving tech. Barra proved conservative, emphasizing that GM will not deploy its full self-driving suite until it is safer than a human driver.

The emergence of full self-driving technologies is all but inevitable at this point, with companies such as Waymo and electric car makers such as Tesla actively pursuing the development and refinement of autonomous driving solutions. Among the industry’s players, Tesla appears to have the momentum, as the company has the largest amount of real-world driving data gathered from hundreds of thousands of vehicles currently on the road. Augmented by the rollout of Tesla’s custom self-driving computer, Elon Musk has been optimistic with the company’s full self-driving rollout plans. Musk has stated that the company’s FSD suite will be “feature complete” by the end of 2019, and that it will have around a million vehicles capable of being used as autonomous “robotaxis” next year.

MDarringer - 6/17/2019 4:07:56 PM

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She also promised no more boring cars from GM and yet what we got was BORING, so she lies.

skytop - 6/17/2019 6:04:33 PM

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GM's woman CEO's is driving the country down into the rocks. GM has lost significant sales and market penetration with Mary Barra misdirecting and mismanaging the corporation.

SanJoseDriver - 6/17/2019 7:52:04 PM

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If she's a bad CEO, she's a bad CEO. Has nothing to do with her being a woman or not.

MDarringer - 6/17/2019 8:16:09 PM

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@SJD agreed 100%

TomM - 6/18/2019 6:48:45 AM

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Based on the apparent reviews of the heads of lots of Large Worldwide Auto Company Heads - IT is hard to find one that would qualify as being more than just adequate - virtually ALL of them have made major errors lately

MDarringer - 6/18/2019 9:02:24 AM

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She's definitely a prime example of the tokenism that the Obama Administration adored and which the Democrats continue to trumpet: BootieJudge (vote for me solely because I'm gay), Harris (Vote for me solely because I'm a black woman.), Warren (Vote for me because I'm...oh nevermind.), Sanders (Vote for me because I'm an anti-semitic Jew), Biden (vote for me because I bobbed Obama for 8 years).

ricks0me - 6/18/2019 6:47:41 PM

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Mary Barra could and should take some spin lessons from Elon Musk & His Band Of Trolls.

MDarringer - 6/18/2019 8:36:02 PM

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She need the Vag Patrol like Elon has the Pole Suckers.