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::All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update

  • trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    How did you arrive at that conclusion?

    In a statement on Wednesday, the GM unit said that it did the recall even though it determined that a similar crash with a risk of serious injury could happen again every 10m to 100m miles without the update.

    • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.ca
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      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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        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.

        • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.ca
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          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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          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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            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.