GM strengthen its efforts towards self-driving car sector

Acquired company "General Motors," GM on "Cross Automation" Cruise Automation, which is specialized start-up company in the field of self-driving cars, in the latest move by the giant car company in its efforts to win a self-driving cars market.The Reuters news agency quoted the founder of the "Cruz Automation" Kyle Vogt as saying that his company has 40 employees has been launched in the year 2013 and has so far received funding of $ 20 million.Reuters also quoted the head of General Motors, Dan safety as saying: "We will dedicate large Almurad in the recruitment and development of the capabilities of the team."Although GM Cruz Automation Tkchwe no financial details of the deal, reported site "Rakod" Recode, a specialist in the technical affairs, citing sources that the deal amounted billion.Safety explained that his company, which is the second largest car manufacturer in the world, aims to use the technical Bcros Automation and her team to speed up the launch of a self parking plans, might be part of the convoys of taxis along the lines of an upper, "in the near future", without specifying a timeframe specified .It is noteworthy that this acquisition is the latest in a rapid series of moves by GM to strengthen its presence in the rapidly evolving market for transport services.The American car company had said last January it would invest $ 500 million in delivery "Lift" Lyft services company, followed by forming a brand new service to share cars, called "muffin" Maven. Then it established a separate unit for the development of self-driving car.He said organizers of the company's plans to develop self-driving cars, including electric vehicles self-driving, which can be deployed in courier services operations in various markets.It is believed widely that the artificial intelligence and advanced computer vision techniques may allow the digitization of future cars, and converted into electrical devices the user can be called to move from one place to another, and then used by another passenger.It is noteworthy that some analysts are skeptical about whether traditional carmakers would stand in the world of cars participatory delivery services, or will be excluded by the competitors more skilled in the strategies of digital technologies, such as Google or upper.