Cruise halts SF service as Calif. DMV shuts down driverless car permits::Driverless car firm Cruise is forced to suspend its service in San Francisco as the California DMV calls out safety issues.
testing its fleet in the city for years and offering paid taxi-style driverless rides for months.
They took money for the testing?
burliman@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Driverless cars will have an impossible standard to live up to. California has 48.5 injuries per 100 million miles driven (and 1.4 deaths). Unless that is zero with driverless cars, then the public will see an unreasonable risk. Any single accident gets tons of press… I found it very difficult to find an objective injury rate for driverless cars. Probably because there are five levels of automation, and many of them allow human error to come into play. Also they are self reported by the driver companies.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Really sounds like it was more that the company tried to hide that their car started driving again with someone trapped underneath.
burliman@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah, this incident and response makes more sense. But it is another case in point of the difficulties driverless companies will have. I drive a lot and I see the stupidest things. I’m sure we all have stories. With this story it is very easy to imagine a clueless driver doing the same.
But the best way to avoid crashes is to be predictable. Isn’t much more predictable than a bunch of self driven cars with no emotions.
AcornCarnage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sure, but who HASN’T done that?
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are you asking for a budget of free kills for your car?
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Somewhere below the rate for human drivers…