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General Motors Co said on Thursday it will invest more than $ 100 million in two facilities as it prepares to manufacture versions of its Cruise autonomous driving vehicle next year at the Orion Township assembly plant in Michigan. [19659002] The United States' largest automaker also said roof modules for GM's autonomous vehicles will be assembled at its Brownstown battery assembly plant.
In January, GM filed a petition for the United States Government States approve a fully autonomous vehicle - without steering, brake pedal or accelerator - to enter it for the first time in a commercial fleet in 2019.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) English) has been reviewing the petition for more than two months and has not yet considered it "complete", a step before they are published. s details of the proposal. The final decision may not come until later this year or in 2019.
GM Executive President Mary Barra met with Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Tuesday and discussed the company's efforts in autonomous vehicles, said the company.
GM is part of a growing payroll of vehicle manufacturers, technology companies and technology startups looking to develop so-called "robo-taxis" over the next three years in North America, Europe and Asia . Most of those companies have one or more partners.
NHTSA said in January that GM requested approval to operate up to 2,500 vehicles without direction or without human drivers.
Other companies, from Uber Technologies Inc to Alphabet Inc Waymo, they have been testing prototypes of autonomous vehicles in shared driving applications, but they have been less explicit than GM in announcing plans for commercial "taxi-robbery" services.
