Link to Cruise review of incident:
https://getcruise.com/news/blog/2023/a-detailed-review-of-th...
California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment
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Something like 30,000 Americans alone are killed every year in car accidents. I think the primary idea is to reduce the constant death on the road by making machines that are safer at driving than humans. The toll that car accidents have on society is honestly unconscionable.
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#74It's always fun when the Silicon Valley "move fast and break things" ethos meets real world government bureaucracy and regulation.
Filling out forms with made-up bullshit just to get an approval works great when you are putting together a SaaS sales presentation, not so much when it's the state Department of Transport on the other end and you are working on matters of public safety.
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Who needs steam machines?
Progress is always good IMO.
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#76And yet TSLA is allowed to have “Full Self Driving” on the road in hundreds of thousands of cars as a “beta”.
I understand why so many people hate Tesla, but they aren't allowed to drive fully automated without a human monitoring them, so not the same situation.
Yes, but the quality of the self-driving Tesla has is 10x less capable than Cruise - I don't know anyone who actually uses "self-driving" with any degree of confidence.
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#77Will California ban all human drivers next? After all, the pedestrian was first hit by a human driver, and was probably the but for cause.
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#78I saw these driving around Austin today near the UoT campus. Pretty creepy looking with all of the equipment hanging off the cars.
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#79This is just anecdote, but having taken trips in both Waymo and Cruise in SF, I feel very comfortable in Waymo: it drives carefully but confidently. It alerts me when cyclists are near when I'm getting out. It navigates coned-off work areas. Cruise required a lot of (remote) human intervention during my trips.
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#80finally, they never should have had access to public roads in the first place