Sterling Anderson
Coverage of Sterling Anderson in the Nexus archive.
- GM wants to crack self-driving for the masses, and it's hiring talent from rivals to do it
General Motors is accelerating its development of self-driving technology for personal cars by hiring talent from competitors like Tesla, Waymo, and Cruise. The company aims to achieve eyes-off highway driving in the Cadillac Escalade IQ by 2028 and has doubled external hiring efforts since 2025 to build its autonomy team.
- GM killed Cruise, but don't count it out of the robotaxi race
General Motors shut down its Cruise robotaxi division in 2024 after a $10B investment but plans to develop autonomous driving technology for personal vehicles, aiming to introduce eyes-off highway driving in 2028. The company's chief product officer stated that its autonomy advancements could eventually support robotaxi services, with a focus on expanding operating regions to match those of dedicated robotaxi companies.
- From 15 hours to one minute: How AI/ML is speeding up GM's development
Sterling Anderson, former chief product officer of Aurora, now leads as chief product officer at General Motors, highlighting how AI/ML is accelerating GM's engineering and design processes, reducing development time from 15 hours to one minute. Anderson describes this as the 'third epoch of engineering,' contrasting it with earlier empirical methods.