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Mary Barra still thinks GM will make an AV with no steering wheel


General Motors CEO Mary Barra still believes an autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel and pedals is "definitely" in her company's future, despite

General Motors CEO Mary Barra still believes an autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel and pedals is “definitely” in her company’s future, despite recently cancelling the purpose-built Origin. Barra told the crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 on Tuesday that she still has an eye on a purpose-built robotaxi, but that she made the call to kill the Origin after an exhausting, years-long attempt to change the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). “There came a point earlier this year where we said: ‘How much harder can we go when we don’t have the legislative change?’ And then if you look at how hard it is to get a new law passed right now, we decided that we had to make the right decision.”

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