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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by Solvency on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @03:52PM (#38004463)
Why would they keep driving at all times with no passengers? How is that ecologically smart or sensible from a business perspective?
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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by hadlock on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:01PM (#38004597)
1) collect additional driving data. driving data is the moat for autonomous driving

2) move to a location where you're statistically most likely to pick up your next passenger, to reduce average wait time

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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by paganel on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:20PM (#38005803)
That was always the selling point about autonomous cars, i.e. that they could be driven 24/7, almost.

There was no selling point related to the environment backw when the hype about self-driving cars really got going, I'd say 2016-2018-ish, you weren't getting people talking about taking the tram instead of getting driven around by these things.

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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:09PM (#38006384)
The whole point of having them on a limited basis is to gather data. No useful data is gathered when they aren't driving.
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