The headline misses the real controversy - they tried to cover up the incident and only reported what actually happened after the government came back and asked questions, because the reports from first responders didn’t line up with what Cruise themselves had reported.
There are also rumors of internal people who felt the cars weren’t safe, with a list of scenarios they didn’t handle acceptably. The cars really should have had human safety drivers ready to override the car while fixing those issues.
🤖 I’m a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:
Click here to see the summary
California officials accused Cruise of withholding key information and video after the accident, and the company’s self-driving operations are on hold while federal authorities investigate.
Vogt expressed optimism about Cruise’s future without him, saying the team is “executing on a solid, multi-year roadmap and an exciting product vision.”
Cruise subsequently announced a “pause” of all of its driverless operations in the US, which includes San Francisco, Austin, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, and Miami.
First, a Nissan Sentra “tragically struck and propelled the pedestrian into the path of the AV,” Cruise said in a description of the incident.
The woman suffered severe injuries and was reportedly still in “serious condition” at San Francisco General Hospital in late October.
In an order of suspension that was published by Vice, the California DMV said that in a meeting on October 3, "Cruise failed to disclose that the AV executed a pullover maneuver that increased the risk of, and may have caused, further injury to a pedestrian.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@beehaw.org
A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
The headline misses the real controversy - they tried to cover up the incident and only reported what actually happened after the government came back and asked questions, because the reports from first responders didn’t line up with what Cruise themselves had reported.
There are also rumors of internal people who felt the cars weren’t safe, with a list of scenarios they didn’t handle acceptably. The cars really should have had human safety drivers ready to override the car while fixing those issues.
🤖 I’m a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:
Click here to see the summary
California officials accused Cruise of withholding key information and video after the accident, and the company’s self-driving operations are on hold while federal authorities investigate.
Vogt expressed optimism about Cruise’s future without him, saying the team is “executing on a solid, multi-year roadmap and an exciting product vision.”
Cruise subsequently announced a “pause” of all of its driverless operations in the US, which includes San Francisco, Austin, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, and Miami.
First, a Nissan Sentra “tragically struck and propelled the pedestrian into the path of the AV,” Cruise said in a description of the incident.
The woman suffered severe injuries and was reportedly still in “serious condition” at San Francisco General Hospital in late October.
In an order of suspension that was published by Vice, the California DMV said that in a meeting on October 3, "Cruise failed to disclose that the AV executed a pullover maneuver that increased the risk of, and may have caused, further injury to a pedestrian.
Saved 71% of original text.
It would be a nice precedent, every time an ai fucks up the legal responsibility escalates directly to the CEO.
Or just whenever a corp. kills a person, the CEO goes to prison. Not the Marriott prison but standard prison with AD-SEG and shankings and stuff.
Actual accountability would be great.
Or better yet, treat corporations like persons. Fully. Put them on trial, if found guilty, dissolve them.
That’s just going to make every CEO a fall guy only.
Fair. The second option then, dissolve the corp. and have done with it.
kind of a tone-deaf statement
Dragged 20 feet vs a beautiful golden parachute. They really do live in an alternate reality.
I remember reading about Cruise flooding cities with their robotaxis like 3-4 months ago, and their cars breakdown / creating traffic jams
I really hope there’s stricter regulation about it.