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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by l33t7332273 on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:47PM (#38006121)
> most AVs explicitly disengage when they encounter situations beyond their understanding

What do you mean by disengage? Cruise’s AVs don’t have a driver to take over.

Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by stouset on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:37PM (#38006650)
I’m lumping things like Tesla FSD.

But also, there are explicitly times and areas where Cruises don’t operate due to being insufficiently able to operate. And times where they do just pull over and wait for human intervention when they don’t know what else to do. Both of which are safe and reasonable, but which also selects themselves into a safer set of miles actually traveled.

Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by Zanni on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:17PM (#38007016)
Human drivers "disengage" also, though we don't think of it that way. I have aging friends who refuse to drive at night. I'll stay home in bad weather. When I was younger, I'd sometimes ask a passenger to back out of tricky parking space for me.
Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by stouset on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:13PM (#38007939)
Yes, but we’re still comparing a highly selected set of AV miles vs the massive variety of human-driven miles.