Cruise is a technology company that started with Kyle Vogt. Before he started this company he founded Socialcam, a mobile application for consumers and later the application was sold to Autodesk for $ 60 million as he returned to his interests, robotics and mechanical engineering. With Cruise, he invented a system that is installed on Audi as a departure, which aims to allow the car to drive especially on the roads.
To activate the system, there is a button 'Cruise' which is installed between the two front seats. When pressed, the car started to run his own effective way on the highway. However, the system is not set to change lanes on the highway according to the requirement of the State of California law surround autonomous vehicles.
Recently, Cruise announced investments of $ 12.5 million Series A round led by Spark Capital and Y Combinator Sam Altman who provided total funding of $ 16.8 million. In addition, the company also recruited Andrew Gray Tesla as vice president of engineering. Previously gray led autopilot R & D to Tesla.
Speed is a system that converts existing cars in the car driving cars on the highway. There are three elements in total, detection units installed on top of the car near the windshield, the actuators that control the direction and leadership as well as the computer installed in the trunk and takes up about a cubic foot of space. The price could be $ 10,000 each.
Vogt said he had no announcements about the product and he just wanted to talk about hiring and some new people. He also added that they were looking for people with any type of computer skills of vision or were gifted with controls and perception of the automobile.
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