Cruise, a self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, announced today that it is acquiring Voyage, a self-driving startup. "The self-driving industry is consolidating, and the leaders of a trillion-dollar market are fast emerging," said Voyager co-founder and CEO Oliver Cameron in a blog post. "After being intimately involved with the AV (autonomous vehicle) industry for the last five years, I can say with certainty that Cruise -- with its advanced self-driving technology, unique auto-maker partnerships, and all-electric purpose-built vehicle with no human controls -- is posed to be the clear leader." GM-backed Cruise is relatively well-funded compared to Voyage. It operates its autonomous vehicles in San Francisco -- it began testing fully driverless cars late last year -- while Voyage has been testing mostly in smaller retirement communities like in San Jose, California and The Villages, Florida.

Residents of the largest retirement community in the US will soon have the option to have their drug prescriptions delivered to them partly by air. Starting this May, UPS and CVS plan to use autonomous drones to shuttle medicine to people in The Villages, Florida, giving them a high-tech way to practice social-distancing. As it has done in the past, UPS will use Matternet M2 quadcopters to deliver the prescriptions (pictured above). At first, the aircraft will drop off the orders at a pickup location, with a human driver on the ground moving them the rest of the way. One CVS pharmacy will take part in the program initially, though there's the potential for two more locations to join in the future.

Among the big auto Goliaths and their swollen check-writing wrists, there's a little startup armed with a slingshot and bragging rights. That startup is Voyage, and it has some lessons to teach the mobility sector. The team who spun out of Udacity's self-driving car nano degree program has raised just over $20M to date, per CEO Oliver Cameron. For reference, that's two orders of magnitude smaller than the last investment round announced by GM's Cruise. And unlike Cruise, Voyage has customers today.

Voyage recently announced its 2nd gen self-driving taxi, and a fleet partnership with Enterprise. Among the big auto Goliaths and their swollen check-writing wrists, there's a little startup armed with a slingshot and bragging rights. That startup is Voyage, and it has some lessons to teach the mobility sector. The team who spun out of Udacity's self-driving car nanodegree program has raised just over $20M to date, per CEO Oliver Cameron. For reference, that's two orders of magnitude smaller than the last investment round announced by GM's Cruise.

Voyage recently announced its 2nd gen self-driving taxi, and a fleet partnership with Enterprise. Among the big auto Goliaths and their swollen check-writing wrists, there's a little startup armed with a slingshot and bragging rights. That startup is Voyage, and it has some lessons to teach the mobility sector. The team who spun out of Udacity's self-driving car nanodegree program has raised just over $20M to date, per CEO Oliver Cameron. For reference, that's two orders of magnitude smaller than the last investment round announced by GM's Cruise.