GM Cruise falls well short of self-driving car miles projection

A woman smiles in the back seat of a self-driving Chevy Bolt EV car during a media event by Cruise, GM’s autonomous car unit, in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 28, 2017. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage

In late 2017, the co-founder of General Motors Co’s self-driving unit told investors the company was on the verge of putting 1 million miles on its autonomous test cars a month. 

That projection proved to be quite a stretch. GM Cruise logged less than 450,000 miles all of last year in California, according to a report released Feb 13. While Cruise has self-driving Chevrolet Bolts on the road in other states, the bulk of its testing is done in California.