If all goes as planned, by 2022, employees of Cruise Automation, General Motors’ autonomous technology subsidiary, will have a lot more co-workers to have an after-work beer with.
On Thursday, GM announced it will invest $14 million in a research and development facility for Cruise Automation, the autonomous vehicle technology startup it purchased in March 2016. The plan is to repurpose an existing facility in the San Francisco area, more doubling Cruise’s current R&D space, and add 1,100 jobs over five years there.
