Comment on Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update

• baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Emphasis goes on “even though”.

  As in “At GM we’re so benevolent that we’re doing a software update even though we think this will only kill someone every 10m miles (which we consider an acceptable murder rate for our cars)”.

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  • trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How frequently this type of incident occurs is outside the control of GM.

    In the crash, another vehicle with a person behind the wheel struck a pedestrian, sending the person into the path of a Cruise autonomous vehicle. The Cruise initially stopped but still hit the person.

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    • baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You missed the part where this was specifically about their car dragging the person for 20ft after the crash and pinning them under the wheel?

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      • trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I didn’t address it because you didn’t say anything about it.

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  • marietta_man@yall.theatl.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No one was killed in the accident they are stating the rate of.

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    • great_site_not@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, but a car running over a woman, dragging her twenty feet and parking on top of her, could easily have killed her.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah but equally you could argue that if all cars were self-driving this accident wouldn’t have happened. It involved a human making a mistake first.

        I kind of feel like we’re getting the wrong takeaway from self driving cars.

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