GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff

Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s... by djsumdog on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:37PM (#23186429)

There aren't any self driving cars on the road that don't have a safety driver, and the ones that are out there get confused all the time. The Uber one had a software dev turn off the lidar sensor to test the computer vision at night and it ended up killing a woman crossing the street.

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Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s... by MiroF on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:57PM (#23186620)

Waymo/Cruise and Uber aren't even in the same class and as I said, Waymo/Cruise cars go thousands of miles without driver intervention.

Waymo cars go 11,000+ miles without driver intervention on average.

I would encourage doing actual research into this subject, rather than relying on your gut or the news articles you read.

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Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s... by redis_mlc on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:38PM (#23187543)

Spare me.

Most self-driving is done in warm climates, in a circle. These companies are amassing thousands of empty miles on the same streets every day to impress people who don't know any better.

I lived on a branch of the main Google circuit, and often they were the only traffic for most of the day. Even saw three Google vehicles in a line, but two were more common.

What's the value of "self-driving" with no weather, traffic or route variation? PR and regulatory filing stats.

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Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s... by staticassertion on Thursday May 14, 2020 @10:44PM (#23188291)

I don't understand. There are self driving cars in SF. I saw one today. It is/ was raining.

There was a driver, but I'm fairly certain that the drivers are not actively driving but are legally required to be there.

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Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s... by beefalo on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:05AM (#23189383)

Last time cruise made a report about disengagements (where the safety driver had to take over) it was one every 5000 miles driven. That's 1 crash the car was prevented from every 5000 miles. Humans crash once per 70000 miles.

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Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s... by Lewton on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:56AM (#23190205)

> That's 1 crash the car was prevented from every 5000 miles.

What? That's not at all what disengagements mean

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Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s... by MiroF on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:57AM (#23192212)

you don't know what a disengagement is.

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Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s... by turtle_waffle on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:47AM (#23190461)

2 year old driving in Moscow after snowfall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx08yRsR9ow

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Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s... by jayd16 on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:23AM (#23190061)

I would gladly pay for a full self driving feature even if I had to drive when it was raining.

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Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s... by adrr on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:18PM (#23186822)

Waymo is running self driving cars without safety drivers. They also ordered 20,000+ cars and bought a factory to install the sensors on the cars.

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Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s... by mkolodny on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:51PM (#23187195)

Source on your Uber "fact"?

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