Cruise Robotaxis Return To the Bay Area Nearly One Year After Pedestrian Crash (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/09/19/1737221/cruise-robotaxis-return-to-the-bay-area-nearly-one-year-after-pedestrian-crash
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/19/cruise-avs-return-to-bay-area-year-after-pedestrian-crash/
> The company said Thursday that it will put "several" vehicles driven by humans in the two cities that will initially perform mapping. The company said it hopes to progress to supervised AV testing of up to five robotaxis "later this fall."
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> "Resuming testing in the Bay Area is an important step forward as we continue to work closely with California regulators and local stakeholders," the company said in a post on X. "This will allow our local employees to engage directly with our product as they refine and improve our tech through R&D." The decision to bring Cruise's autonomous Chevy Bolts back to the Bay Area comes just a few months after the company reached a settlement with California's Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). As part of that deal, Cruise paid a $112,500 fine for failing to provide full information about the October 2023 crash.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/19/cruise-avs-return-to-bay-area-year-after-pedestrian-crash/
From what I hear (Score:1)
They are all over Phoenix Arizona now and they work perfectly well. At this point I think we are just waiting to see how long it takes to work out the legal liability issues around self-driving cars. I don't think that'll take more than 3 to 5 years.
We've got around 7 million professional drivers of the light vehicle kind, many of who do it because there are otherwise unemployable.
I'd say within the next 5 years, 10 of the most every single one of them is going to be completely and totally unemploya
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You could say the same thing about the longshoremen who loaded & unloaded ships before containerization. They found jobs, shipping got faster and much cheaper, and fewer product is "lost" either through theft or ineptitude. No I'm not worried about huge proportions of society being unemployed when something better comes along.
Sure I will (Score:2)
Here's an article on the effects of 50 years of non stop automation: [1]https://www.businessinsider.co... [businessinsider.com]
The difference here is that was 50 years of slow, steady automation. We at least found shitty service sector jobs for most of them and made up reasons why they rest were disabled. Settling in to permanent 8-10% unemployment and cooking the books to make it look like half that.
We're gonna double that in 10 years instead of 50. While also replacing ton of folks with AI. And with no new jobs on the hor
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/automation-labor-market-wage-inequality-middle-class-jobs-study-2021-6
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Yeah, deserts are easy mode. Try and this in snow let alone rain. Humans don't even know where the lines in the road are for most of the winter.
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I agree. Not 10/10 of drivers, there will be specialty jobs and people that pay extra for a human driver. But 9/10 will be out of a job because self-driving cars just perform better and cause less damage. Incidentally, this is not unexpected. Eventually, human drivers will just look like a menace in comparison to self-driving vehicles. They already are in many scenarios, but people are still used to human drivers killing people while they are not used to self-driving vehicles killing far fewer people (by an
Remember... (Score:1)
These are the ones that run on Silicon Valley "AI" where AI = Actually Indian. I believe the number they stated was an intervention needed every 55 seconds by a team of over 700 people in India. It was a while ago but it was close to those numbers.
perform mapping? so each area needs to be super ma (Score:2)
perform mapping? so each area needs to be super mapped?
and how often does it need to be updated?
And what they super map on road and then the next day work starts to change that road?