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How Cruise Uses Simulation To Speed Up Our Sensor Development
How Cruise Uses Simulation To Speed Up Our Sensor Development
In January of this year, we introduced the Cruise Origin — the first purpose-built, fully driverless vehicle with a million-mile lifespan…
Rico Stenson
Oct 1, 2020
Cruise’s Continuous Learning Machine Predicts the Unpredictable on San Francisco Roads
Cruise’s Continuous Learning Machine Predicts the Unpredictable on San Francisco Roads
The promise of all-electric, self-driving vehicles is monumental: they will keep us safer on the road, help make our air cleaner…
Sean Harris
Sep 10, 2020
The Decision Behind Using Articulating Sensors on Cruise AVs
The Decision Behind Using Articulating Sensors on Cruise AVs
When we introduced the Cruise Origin earlier this year, we showcased an articulating sensor that has the ability to pivot 360 degrees and…
JM Fischer
Jul 1, 2020
Rethinking Cruise’s AV Development Loop During COVID-19
Rethinking Cruise’s AV Development Loop During COVID-19
On-road testing is a valuable part of our overall development process, but we also make extensive use of our multiple simulation…
Tom Boyd
May 26, 2020
The Disengagement Myth
The Disengagement Myth
In a few weeks the California DMV will release disengagements data from Cruise and other companies who test AVs on public roads. This data…
Kyle Vogt
Jan 17, 2020
Introducing Terra, Cruise’s Data Processing Platform
Introducing Terra, Cruise’s Data Processing Platform
With Terra, new hires can write a pipeline that generates millions of rows of complex feature data in a matter of hours.
Emmanuel Turlay
Dec 4, 2019
3 Ways Cruise HD Maps Give Our Self-Driving Cars An Edge
3 Ways Cruise HD Maps Give Our Self-Driving Cars An Edge
Especially when it comes to complex urban environments like San Francisco.
Erin Antcliffe
Nov 13, 2019
Securing Kubernetes with K-rail
Securing Kubernetes with K-rail
Workload policy enforcement in Kubernetes to manage security at speed
Dustin Decker
Oct 30, 2019
Container Platform Networking at Cruise
Container Platform Networking at Cruise
Using Google Kubernetes Engine with a multi-cloud, private hybrid network.
Karl Isenberg
Oct 15, 2019
Building Self-Driving Hardware at Scale
Building Self-Driving Hardware at Scale
Written by Brendan Hermalyn, Director of Autonomous Vehicle Hardware Systems at Cruise.
Brendan Hermalyn
Oct 2, 2019
How We Solved Tiled Map Caching for Self-Driving Cars
How We Solved Tiled Map Caching for Self-Driving Cars
One important difference between level 4 and 5 self-driving cars is level 4’s reliance on pre-defined maps.
Roman Sergeev
Sep 18, 2019
Open-Sourcing Isopod: An Expressive DSL Framework for Kubernetes Configuration
Open-Sourcing Isopod: An Expressive DSL Framework for Kubernetes Configuration
With Isopod, we achieved strongly typed Kubernetes objects, code reuse, and test coverage that was not possible before.
Charles Xu
Sep 10, 2019
Automating Firmware Security with FwAnalyzer
Automating Firmware Security with FwAnalyzer
Presenting our efforts around continuous firmware security analysis.
Collin Mulliner
Aug 7, 2019
Secrets Management in a Cloud Agnostic World
Secrets Management in a Cloud Agnostic World
Open-sourcing Daytona: Automated Secrets Injection, Fast & Secure.
Mike Ruth
Aug 1, 2019
Container Platform Security at Cruise
Container Platform Security at Cruise
Best practices for enterprise-grade Kubernetes security.
Karl Isenberg
Jul 16, 2019
How Self-Driving Cars Think: Navigating Double-Parked Vehicles
How Self-Driving Cars Think: Navigating Double-Parked Vehicles
Written by Rachel Zucker, Software Engineer, and Shiva Ghose, Staff Software Engineer
Rachel Zucker
Jun 27, 2019
Webviz: An Open Source Platform for Robotics Data Visualization
Webviz: An Open Source Platform for Robotics Data Visualization
How Cruise visualizes autonomous vehicle data in the browser
Esther S. Weon
Jun 18, 2019
Building a Container Platform at Cruise (Part 1)
Building a Container Platform at Cruise (Part 1)
The backend for Cruise self-driving cars runs on Kubernetes.
Karl Isenberg
Jun 5, 2019
Data Warehousing for AV Simulation Analysis
Data Warehousing for AV Simulation Analysis
At Cruise, we are developing self-driving cars through extensive use of powerful simulation frameworks. Though critical in helping us…
Rick Fulton
May 10, 2019
4 Reasons it Pays to Have an Internal Offensive Security Team Early
4 Reasons it Pays to Have an Internal Offensive Security Team Early
When I tell people about our Offensive Security (or OffSec) team, I’m often met with puzzled looks — even from the security community.
Will Butler
Apr 26, 2019
How to Prioritize Self-Driving Car Security
How to Prioritize Self-Driving Car Security
Authors: Chris Valasek & Charlie Miller
Charlie Miller
Apr 18, 2019
Managing Kubernetes RBAC Groups
Managing Kubernetes RBAC Groups
Announcing our open source project RBACSync
Stephen Day
Mar 21, 2019
Introducing Worldview
Introducing Worldview
At Cruise Automation, hundreds of software and test engineers interact with data collected by our autonomous vehicles. The AV Tools team…
Jacob Bandes-Storch
Feb 15, 2019
How we built the first real self-driving car (really)
How we built the first real self-driving car (really)
Electric self-driving cars will save millions of lives and significantly accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy, but only…
Kyle Vogt
Sep 11, 2017
Why testing self-driving cars in SF is challenging but necessary
Why testing self-driving cars in SF is challenging but necessary
Anyone who has visited San Francisco knows driving here is kind of ridiculous. Our vehicles encounter challenging (and often absurd)…
Kyle Vogt
Oct 3, 2017
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