GM, Google, Others Join Retreat From CES Over Rising COVID-19 Cases

GM, Google, Others Join Retreat From CES Over Rising COVID-19 Cases
General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra announces that Chevrolet will begin testing a fleet of Bolt autonomous vehicles in Michigan, during a news conference in Detroit, Mich., on Dec. 15, 2016. Rebecca Cook/Reuters
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U.S. automaker General Motors Co., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and its self-driving auto-technology company Waymo on Thursday joined the companies no longer attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in person early next month due to rising COVID-19 infections.

GM Chief Executive Mary Barra had been scheduled to give a keynote speech at the annual conference on Jan. 5, during which the company would have shown its electric Silverado pickup truck for the first time. Barra will still make the speech and presentation remotely, a spokesman said.