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.
The Clarity is actually Honda's second generation of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; about 30 first generation vehicles were placed 2005-7.
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.
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.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Treasurer Bill Lockyer worked out the deal for Tesla Motors Inc. after learning that the Silicon Valley company intended to build its second-generation vehicle in New Mexico.
"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.
