GM CEO: The Bolt EV Will Take Us to a Self-Driving Future

General Motors is still a car company, at least for now. "Our core business will be the core for a very very long time," CEO Mary Barra said today at the WIRED Business Conference in New York. That business is making personal vehicles that people drive and own, with a focus on trucks, SUVs, and middle America. But it's hardly exclusive, and in the past six months General Motors has made a series of bold, future-facing moves to cash in on what Barra calls "an accretive opportunity"--a chance to add some apple flesh around the steady core. The Detroit giant invested half-a-billion dollars in Lyft, with plans to build a fleet of self-driving cars.