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 ulfw on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:48AM (#23189299)

There isn’t always a “side of the road” tho. (think tunnels, walls, Old Towns, busy city centres...)

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Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s... by kgin on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:18PM (#23196220)

Tunnels are perhaps the only "no stopping" situation where there is nowhere to pull over. Luckily, tunnels are also the absolute simplest self-driving scenario.

Tunnels have to kept clear of obstacles. If an SDC would have to stop, so would a human-driven car.

For the others, stopped cars are very common.

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Re:GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of s... by MertsA on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:25PM (#23196308)

So long as "bail to a human" doesn't take long e.g. 5 seconds to connect to an operator, it might not need to pull aside at all.

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