Cruise driverless vehicles involved in 3 separate traffic incidents in SF

Re:Cruise driverless vehicles involved in 3 separate traffic... by jfim on Saturday September 24, 2022 @10:46AM (#32963086)

I'd assume that the cars see significantly more utilization than a normal passenger vehicle. An autonomous vehicle doesn't have a driver that gets tired, so in theory it's possible to operate it 24x7, minus the downtime for repairs, cleaning, and charging.

A better metric would be incidents per hour driven, not per vehicle.

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Re:Cruise driverless vehicles involved in 3 separate traffic... by steveBK123 on Saturday September 24, 2022 @10:59AM (#32963228)

There's lot of ways you can measure it to make it sound better. However it comes across as a sort of centralized future cyberpunk failure mode.

Again we are talking about 3 of the 30 vehicles they have on road failing at the same time. Imagine if 10% of taxis in your city suddenly froze in place for 20 minutes until a special tow truck came after a pedestrian called the number on the back?

Or if all taxis in your city, when traveling through a particular intersection froze in place, requiring bystanders to call a response team from the taxi dispatch to come out and show the driver what to do?

It would be interesting to see the metrics of number of interventions/calls/responses Cruise is experiencing daily/weekly/montlhy.

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Re:Cruise driverless vehicles involved in 3 separate traffic... by jfim on Saturday September 24, 2022 @02:25PM (#32965324)

That has happened already, although for human driven vehicles. Yandex taxi was hacked earlier this year and all taxis were made to go to a certain location, causing massive traffic jams.

In practice, if companies have these kinds of issues regularly, it'll be similar to how scooters and dock free bikes have been rolled out: they'll be allowed initially, then the city officials will kick them out if they're causing more trouble than they're worth.

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