moment” in San Francisco, a fleet of self-driving Chevrolet Bolts, the company’s new electric car, was being built at a G. M.<br />assembly plant in Michigan, the pace accelerated at the direction of Ms. Barra and her senior management team.<br />Or you stop.” If the technology works, she said, it will make the right decision: “The car knows.”<br />After that drive, Ms. Barra made her own decision to speed up, convinced that such cars were worth betting the company on.<br />G. M. Wants to Drive the Future of Cars That Drive Themselves -<br />By BILL VLASICJUNE 4, 2017<br />DETROIT — The chief executive of General Motors, an automaker synonymous with Detroit,<br />saw the future of driving not in the Motor City but on the streets of San Francisco.<br />With every new product we’re doing, we are going in to win.”<br />For Ms. Barra, 55, who took the helm at G. M.<br />in 2014 as the first female chief executive of a major automaker, it is the latest chapter in the company’s long comeback.<br />“We are very, very serious and intent on putting something on the road,” Ms. Barra said of the company’s automated vehicles.<br />“I do believe General Motors is a tech company,” Ms. Barra said.<br />“We don’t go in to compete,” Ms. Barra said.
