California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by stouset on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:01PM (#38006276)

I really hope if anything that seeing so many occupant-less vehicles on the streets makes us collectively realize how inefficiently these vehicles are using a scarce, congestion-prone resource in a way that wasn’t as visible with Uber/Lyft.

I’m generally a pretty low-stress person, but seeing traffic issues caused by multiple empty vehicles aimlessly meandering through the city is really starting to get to me.

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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by londons_explore on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:11PM (#38006397)

The city should just start to bill big fleet operators for passenger-less miles.

That would be uber and lyft for all miles driven by their operatives without a passenger aboard, and by waymo and cruise for miles driven without a customer.

By keeping it to the biggest operators, the administrative burden is small (these companies all GPS track their cars already). The fee could probably be pretty small (say 10 cents a mile) to disuade the practice, while not outlawing it entirely.

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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by stouset on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:12PM (#38006415)

Not the worst idea I’ve heard.

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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by xnx on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:50PM (#38008183)

I feel this way about free parking.

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