<story><title>The Cruise Origin</title><url>https://www.getcruise.com/origin/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nition</author><text>Is there a rule these days that your startup isn&amp;#x27;t allowed to clearly describe what its product is?&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I guess this is an unmanned self-driving taxi service. Looks good, honestly. If it&amp;#x27;s significantly cheaper than a taxi with human driver, then maybe it really could help people not need to own a car. Especially if they can optimise routes to get more people riding at once.&lt;p&gt;Having to hunt for what the thing actually is also got me to notice the small disclaimer though:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; All on-road images of the Origin are renderings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unlinked_dll</author><text>One distinct variety of company culture is one where the employees can&amp;#x27;t fathom a world where no one has ever heard of them.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s ok though, especially if you target your marketing towards early adopters who would know who you are. I doubt some of these companies could handle the hype or scale of being a household name.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Cruise Origin</title><url>https://www.getcruise.com/origin/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nition</author><text>Is there a rule these days that your startup isn&amp;#x27;t allowed to clearly describe what its product is?&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I guess this is an unmanned self-driving taxi service. Looks good, honestly. If it&amp;#x27;s significantly cheaper than a taxi with human driver, then maybe it really could help people not need to own a car. Especially if they can optimise routes to get more people riding at once.&lt;p&gt;Having to hunt for what the thing actually is also got me to notice the small disclaimer though:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; All on-road images of the Origin are renderings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yingw787</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;hackernoon&amp;#x2F;for-the-love-of-god-please-tell-me-what-your-company-does-c2f0b835ab92&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;hackernoon&amp;#x2F;for-the-love-of-god-please-tel...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>