General Motors Co. and its self-driving car subsidiary Cruise Automation said today that they’re ready to mass-produce vehicles that already have fully autonomous hardware built in, meaning once the software is fully up to speed the cars will be good to go.

Unlike other cars currently using self-driving technology, the Chevrolet Bolt EVs, 50 of which have already been made, are built to be autonomous rather than have the technology fitted to them. In a blog post on Medium, Kyle Vogt, founder and chief executive of Cruise Automation, called this the “first real self-driving car.”

“The car we’re unveiling today is actually our 3rd generation self-driving car, but it’s the first that meets the redundancy and safety requirements we believe are necessary to operate without a driver,” said Vogt. “There’s no other car like this in existence.”

Vogt added that the cars will soon appear on the road. Although they look like everyday vehicles, he said, they will be “the most technically advanced robots on the planet.” GM has been testing its self-driving software for some time, but Vogt said the next step was to produce a car that was actually built to have no human operating it.

Vogt said that its fully-autonomous software will be ready in a matter of months, which is quite the claim given obstacles other companies have found in their path to deliver a completely reliable self-driving car. He said in the coming weeks staff will be testing the cars in San Francisco.

The advantage GM may have over some of its competitors is the ability to get the cars out faster. This could mean hundreds of thousands of the vehicles leaving the plant in Orion, Michigan, each year. The new car, Vogt told Recode, will “be built with automotive-grade compliance across the board and is capable of going down a high-volume assembly line in one of GM’s state of the art facilities that can crank out hundreds of thousands of cars a year, and when those vehicles roll off the line they’re fully capable of operating without a driver.”

Image: Cruise Automation/GM