Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car

Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by QAPereo on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:14PM (#15221343)

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by smnscu on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:34PM (#15221545)

> Cruise employee here. throwaway for obvious reasons. It needs to be said that this is entirely marketing smoke and mirrors. The Cruise platform is significantly behind most other players in the market, and is having many many technical problems because of shortsighted leadership on Kyle's part, including high level people quitting (the head of planning and controls left last month because of Kyle, and more are threatening to quit) The reason I'm saying this is that this sort of public "everything is fine, we are the best" posturing leaks inwards. The opposite is very much true. Employees are very upset with Kyle because of things just like this. I make no exaggeration when I say Kyle is a mean-spirited, selfish person in private, and is very quick to publicly take credit for the work of others that he has emotionally and verbally abused. It's truly one of the most toxic environments I've ever been a part of.

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by tmpnam7280557 on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:08PM (#15224515)

This is accurate.

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by mamurphy on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:23PM (#15221436)

The comment had to have been deleted in under 5 minutes. I'm impressed by the quick archive.

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by grzm on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:16PM (#15221368)

Please don't use URL shorteners as it obscures the destination URL.

Edit to add: Also, if the intent was to reveal what was deleted, I would lean on the side of respecting someone's right to retract what they said. We've all said something that we regret saying. If you think there's something untoward going on, you can contact the HN mods via the Contact link in the footer.

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by adrianmacneil on Monday September 11, 2017 @06:36PM (#15223060)

Cruise employee here. I'm sorry to hear you feel that way. In my experience, Cruise is one of the most exciting companies to be working for today, and Kyle is easily the most intelligent, hard working, and reasonable CEO I have worked for.

For sure, there is still a lot of work to be done before we can launch a full L4/L5 vehicle, but I would say with high confidence our platform is ahead of most other players in the industry, and I'm confident that we will be one of the first companies to launch AVs at scale.

FWIW, Glassdoor seems to agree with me: https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Cruise-EI_IE97...

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by senatorobama on Monday September 11, 2017 @07:37PM (#15223447)

This sounds a bit like damage control to me, but

> Kyle is easily the most intelligent, hard working, and reasonable CEO I have worked for.

Couldn't you be in a different management hierarchy to this purported employee?

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by adrianmacneil on Monday September 11, 2017 @08:33PM (#15223772)

Not damage control, just providing an alternate opinion.

Yes, it's entirely possible that the commenter is (or was) an employee in a department other than engineering. We all report to CEO eventually though, so I don't think that would result in a significantly different experience.

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by tmpnam7280557 on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:23PM (#15224582)

OP made accurate statements and expressed a sentiment that's typical at Cruise. Your "alternate opinion" is not widely shared.

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by dtparr on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:15PM (#15221353)

Because I like to be skeptical both ways, do you have any way to establish your bona fides as a Cruise employee while still being anonymous?

Also, that sounds terrible. What's keeping you (or anyone else) there?

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by yeldarb on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:11PM (#15221321)

Why do you still work there?

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by KGIII on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:20PM (#15221410)

Given that someone archived their post, that may no longer be an issue.

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by olivermarks on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:12PM (#15221330)

Thanks for providing real world insight into this marketing puffery. Would love to hear your thoughts on Tesla's maturity...

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by speps on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:15PM (#15221358)

Why the change of heart on the comment? I read it, logged in to upvote and it was gone...

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