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Yeah. Cruise is an engineering disaster zone.

People will die if GM/Cruise takes the safety driver out of the car. Anyone familiar with Cruise Automation's software will agree to this statement. Hopefully Waymo has done a bett…

We're building the wrong thing here at Cruise. The problem is partly that incompetent engineers are influential within the organization. The team is much weaker than outsiders beli…

I am an engineer at Cruise. Our team is surprisingly weak. Particularly the early engineers (Rusty, Elliot, Juan, etc.) What we really need is better technical management to point …

As soon as the safety drivers aren't in the car, people will die. Cruise's software is atrocious.

I work for Cruise. Our software is a bungled mess from top to bottom. For example, we have loops in our ROS node graph. Any student can tell you that the variance of the sum of two…

I work at Cruise. The technology is worse than the article says it is. Much worse.

GM/Cruise developer here. GM's self-driving tech is a joke compared to Waymo's. Don't be fooled by the advertising.