At least until the next edge case…
Though really, I AM for self-driving cars. I just think the corpos should have to pay dearly for using the public infrastructure for beta testing and the public as guinnea pigs… Mostly the latter, because cars are a tiny fraction of wear and tear on roads.
I’ve never really thought of it that way, but that’s an excellent point. The human trials have begun.
I mean where and how else would they test them? They’re gonna need real-world beta testing at some point. Charging them for this only makes developing self-driving cars more expensive.
Not saying they should be barred from testing. They should just have to pay out the ass to privately benefit from public goods. Especially if they’re putting normal people at risk. And they are.
if car.sensors.dragging_human_carcass(): stopThis is the best summary I could come up with:
Cruise has pushed a handy update to its self-driving taxi fleet so that they will no longer drag pedestrians along the road after running them over.
The GM subsidiary submitted what is technically a recall notice [PDF] to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday, saying it needed to fix up the robo-vehicles’ collision detection subsystem.
That’s precisely what happened on October 2 in San Francisco, when a Cruise self-driving taxi, with no humans onboard, ran over a woman who had seconds earlier been knocked to the ground by a hit-and-run driver.
The woman fell in front of the Cruise car, which drove over her, realized it hit something, and then tried to pull over to safely, dragging her along and stopping on top of her, trapping her.
Cruise also announced plans today to hire a chief safety officer, a role which apparently didn’t exist at the auto-tech car biz in its first decade of operation.
Cruise did have a VP of safety and systems, Dr Louise Zhang, who will be assuming the CSO role in the interim until a permanent person is found.
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Yeah but, if i get dragged i don’t have to pay for the ride. JohnnyCab policy.
They’re still safer than humans, have been for years. The sooner we make the switch, the more lives we will save. Wait till you hear about all the unpatched bugs human drivers have.
