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Hey there, it's Alexis St. John. Joining us on the podcast today is Jeff Miller,

the assistant chief engineer for Super Cruise.

He's going to give us the latest as General Motors plans

to roll out the driver's system across its lineup,

more than 20 cars coming in the next two years.

But first, before we talk about driver assist systems,

Leslie and Alexa, as you both know,

a lot of autonomous driving news this week. Perhaps first and foremost starting with

Weimo and Cruz both both making some announcements related to funding and lines of

credit.

Leslie, what can you tell me about what Cruz is up to?

Well, it looks like Cruz has managed to get his hands on a multi-year $5 billion line of credit with its finance arm, and this is going

to help finance the purchase of the origin vehicles starting in 2023. You might remember that origin vehicle. vehicle that's sort of a red box looking robo-taxy that they are planning to bring

out and so this is going to according to Dan Amman who was the CEO of

Cruz this is going to take the company's total war chest to more than 10

billion dollars as they look forward to commercialization. So some pretty big news on the

finance front, at least for Cruz now. And Waimo of course has its own news going on.

That's right, Leslie.

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