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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by londons_explore on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:08PM (#38006366)
Kinda surprised they stop... When you have a self-driving system that costs $200k+, you want to keep it running and collecting data as much as possible - passenger or no passenger.

The added tyre wear is going to be tiny compared to the interest payments on all that expensive hardware and engineers salaries.

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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by notatoad on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:19PM (#38006474)
probably more about stretching their battery than anything else. if it roams around between trips it's going to have fewer customers per charge cycle.
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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by londons_explore on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:26PM (#38006532)
But when roaming around at like 10 mph average round the city, it can presumably do a full 18+ hour day on a single charge. Electric cars are super efficient in urban environments.
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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by throwaway2037 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:11AM (#38009360)
I never thought about the charging problem. In SF, where do Waymo cars charge themselves?
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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by londons_explore on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:41AM (#38010632)
They have awaymo garage where a human manually plugs them in to charge.
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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by notatoad on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @02:54PM (#38016764)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbwUgApj0s8
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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by xnx on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:51PM (#38008200)
It probably make sense to pre-position them to the spot most likely to reduce time to pick up the next predicted passenger.
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