Cruising

Your robot is ready, sir.

Cruise, the self-driving car start-up, majority owned by General Motors, has unveiled its first vehicle designed to be driverless. The electric-powered Cruise Origin was developed by Honda, which also has a stake in the company. The launch of the vehicle, which has no steering wheel or pedals, had been delayed from last year.

Cruise said it was designed for shared ownership: "It's not a product you buy, it's an experience you share."

Chief executive Dan Ammann wants drivers to move away from individual ownership to a sharing model, to help reduce emissions, accidents and congestion. Speaking at the launch in San Francisco, he said the Cruise Origin was not a concept vehicle: "It is self-driven. It is all electric. It is shared."

I'm not really all that interested in any "sharing experiences" in San Francisco, thanks. On the bright side, it should be much easier to keep it driving down the road safely in the Shitty by the Bay: just put a sniffer onboard so it can avoid the human feces littering the sidewalks.