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Cruise CEO says SF ‘should be rolling out the red carpet’ for robotaxis, threatens to maybe leave town (sfist.com)
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Cruise CEO says SF ‘should be rolling out the red carpet’ for robotaxis, threatens to maybe leave town::In his first major public interview since the DMV cut their San Francisco fleet in half, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said “we cannot expect perfection” from the self-driving cars, and vaguely threatened to leave town if regulators curtail them any further.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree. That will need to be proven. But when they are better than, say 90% of all drivers, it would make sense to switch. Waiting until they're "perfect" (which is the requirement I object to), is just wasting needless lives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on what happens when they make errors. Is it comparable to human errors or are they prone to making worse mistakes than humans on average in terms of the conseguences.

They might be 99.99% perfect but in 0.01% of cases cause massive car pileups in motorways (for example) due to reasons.

A proper risk analysis based on a controlled transition would be better to be done first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yups, fully agreed.

When it all comes down to I'd much rather have the mass pileup you describe once every few years (which can then be analysed and remedied due to the telemetry involved), than the over 3000 traffic deaths a day we have now.