Cruise, GM’s robot car company, wants to send the first cars to the streets of San Francisco without a safety driver at the wheel by the end of 2020. The company will be the first developer of self-driving cars to be on the road in chaotic city traffic without people behind the wheel, said Cruise boss in a blog entry. Cruise has been doing test drives in the city with a fleet of converted Chevrolet Bolt electric cars for years.

Not comparable with Phoenix, Arizona Previously, Google’s sister company Waymo and the robot car developer Zoox, which was taken over by Amazon, were given permission to drive without people behind the wheel. Waymo recently announced that its Robotaxi service, operated in a suburb of the city of Phoenix, Arizona, will initially only make trips without a safety driver. However, Phoenix is ​​considered to be rather cheap for self-driving cars, both in terms of weather conditions and traffic volume.

Cruise originally had the start of a robotaxi offer for