It’s one of the biggest bets going in the world of cars. Since May, General Motors Co and its Cruise self-driving car unit have landed $5 billion in investment commitments from Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp and Honda Motor Co Ltd to develop a robot taxi service that could safely navigate the city streets of San Francisco by the end of next year – putting it ahead Alphabet Inc’s Waymo self-driving car unit, Uber and Lyft.

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