Eventually, GM's third generation vehicles (i.e. the HydroGen3) are presented, as well as the recent 4th generation Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell SUV.
The second generation vehicle includes extensible landing legs and will be tested at the Texas test site high-altitude, mid-velocity testing of another of the second-generation test vehicles (F9R Dev2) at a SpaceX leased facility at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
Development of a third generation vehicle based on the new Jeep Wrangler JK has been completed and significant production for both Israeli and foreign customers is under way.
"The Japanese, at least Honda and Toyota, have already put their second-generation vehicles on the road," said David Friedman, senior engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group.
There is certainly no sliding sideways around corners on the day I sat in the back of a Google SUV, one of the company's first-generation vehicles complete with steering wheel.
The ride in the modified Bolt EV, a second-generation Cruise test car (only a few of the third-generation vehicles are on roads at the moment, with plans to produce more very soon) involved hailing a car to a location in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, selecting from one of three available destinations, and then loading into the vehicle to make the trip.
I can't decide if items like squeaky windshield wipers or an odd instrument cluster are supercar sacrifices or something to do with a first-generation vehicle.
These were developed in parallel, including the new, third-generation vehicle that has enough redundancy in terms of compute, sensor and driving systems that you can safely remove the human driver for the vehicle.
GM and Cruise are making progress on their plan to deploy autonomous vehicles on roads for the public: Today, it's showing off its fourth-generation Cruise Autonomous Vehicle (AV), which comes just a few short months after it first revealed its third-generation vehicle.
Uber ATG Head of Product Matt Sweeney told me in an interview that this third-generation vehicle actually uses fewer sensors than the Fords that are on the roads in Pittsburgh, though the loadout still includes a full complement of traditional optical cameras, radar, LiDAR and ultrasonic detectors.
