moment” in San Francisco, a fleet of self-driving Chevrolet Bolts, the company’s new electric car, was being built at a G. M.
assembly plant in Michigan, the pace accelerated at the direction of Ms. Barra and her senior management team.
Or you stop.” If the technology works, she said, it will make the right decision: “The car knows.”
After that drive, Ms. Barra made her own decision to speed up, convinced that such cars were worth betting the company on.
G. M. Wants to Drive the Future of Cars That Drive Themselves -
By BILL VLASICJUNE 4, 2017
DETROIT — The chief executive of General Motors, an automaker synonymous with Detroit,
saw the future of driving not in the Motor City but on the streets of San Francisco.
With every new product we’re doing, we are going in to win.”
For Ms. Barra, 55, who took the helm at G. M.
in 2014 as the first female chief executive of a major automaker, it is the latest chapter in the company’s long comeback.
“We are very, very serious and intent on putting something on the road,” Ms. Barra said of the company’s automated vehicles.
“I do believe General Motors is a tech company,” Ms. Barra said.
“We don’t go in to compete,” Ms. Barra said.