Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱Mar 13

I was doing some research for a video and randomly came across this image from GM, which was on a page to promote the benefits of electric vehicles.

This image is obviously photoshopped, but look at this place. It's prime waterfront land, directly across the river from a city, and it's being shown as a featureless asphalt surface.

Even in their "optimistic" visions of the future, car companies' vision for cities is shit.

Show threadThomas Bohn
@notjustbikes and the only useful vehicle is in far distance back
Mar 13 at 3:16pmWeb
Show threadNot Just Bikes 🇳🇱Mar 13

@tehabe yeap. And the one in the back-right is their concept Cruise Origin self-driving van, which tells you that this image is several years old.

GM shut down Cruise after one of their self-driving cars ran over and dragged a woman 20 feet in San Francisco in 2023:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-03/woman-hospitalized-after-being-hit-by-two-cars-one-self-driving-in-san-francisco

Woman hospitalized after being pinned under self-driving car

First responders arrived to find a woman pinned underneath a self-driving car with 'multiple traumatic injuries.'

Los Angeles Times
Show threadThomas BohnMar 13
@notjustbikes and of course GM already stopped the production of the brightdrop van, so no useful vehicles in the picture left