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Shift: A podcast about mobility

GM’s Adam Rodriguez talks Cruise, Super Cruise and the path forward

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

Business

4.831 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Adam Rodriguez, executive director of product and advanced driver-assistance systems at General Motors, shares the latest updates to the company’s Super Cruise feature. Further, he details how GM is integrating software from Cruise, the company’s abandoned robotaxi subsidiary, into blueprints for someday offering personally owned autonomous vehicles.

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter of the automotive news.

0:13.4

This week's guest on the podcast is Adam Rodriguez. He's the ex-Wamo executive hired last fall to oversee product management and advanced driver

0:21.8

assist systems at General Motors.

0:25.0

Adam is front and center in the merger of supercrues and cruise technology and in GM's pursuit

0:30.9

of the elusive, personally owned autonomous vehicle.

0:33.9

The amount of time that we're giving back to people, that's the equivalent of, you know, the invention of the washer dryer, which was a huge deal for our society. Before we get to

0:43.2

Adam today, though, we have a look at these weeks headlines from around the mobility world.

0:47.7

And for that, I'm joined by my automotive news colleague, Lindsay Van Hully. Lindsay, how are you today?

0:53.3

I am good. happy to be here.

0:55.5

Good.

0:56.0

Welcome back to the Shift podcast.

0:57.9

Thanks.

0:59.3

For those listeners who didn't catch your previous appearance here on Shift, tell us about

1:03.7

your beat at Automotive News.

1:05.9

So I'm our GM beat reporter.

1:08.0

So everything that touches GM from technology to manufacturing to product

1:14.6

development, all kind of falls within my wheelhouse. Excellent. So I'm glad that you're joining

1:20.2

for this conversation with Adam today. And perhaps important to note for our listeners that you

1:25.1

are my co-host for the entirety of today's

1:28.5

episode and we'll be joining us for the conversation with Adam. Yeah, it was fun. Yes. So set

1:35.1

to stage for our discussion with him today. What are General Motors expectations to your

1:40.2

knowledge of Super Cruise in terms of growth and revenue for the next year or beyond?

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