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General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has agreed to cut its fleet of San Francisco robotaxis in half as authorities investigate two recent crashes in the city.

The state Department of Motor Vehicles asked for the reduction after a Cruise vehicle without a human driver collided with an unspecified emergency vehicle on Thursday.

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[–] wookiepedia 25 points 1 year ago

Cutting them in half is certainly one way to keep them from driving.

[–] alienanimals 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't wait for them to cut the human fleet in half once they see how many crashes people cause!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Damn if only there were a way to get around in San Francisco that wasn't driving or being driven!

[–] ZagamTheVile 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, how many other car crashes happened in the same time frame?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

These crashes are all by the same "driver". If one person crashed two cars in a day, don't you think they should stop driving for a bit?

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

Hm, that's actually a pretty good analogy. I haven't thought of it that way before.

[–] stigmata 5 points 1 year ago

No it's not. If that one person crashed twice after 500 trips and everyone else is crashing once after 200 trips, I'm still taking the person whose average crashes is more than two times less often.

[–] stigmata 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not if they did significantly more trips than the chances of a normal person crashing twice.

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

You know how many trips these cars drive per day? Please enlighten us. If you don't have any sources, stop making things up with no evidence.

[–] stigmata 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, that argument could work both ways right?

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

How is that in any way comparable?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don’t think we or they (autonomous vehicles.) are ready for it…

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

The only way they ever will be is with lots and lots of training.

[–] Aux -5 points 1 year ago

They are more ready than human drivers.