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Cruise said they shared all the video from the crash with government agencies including the DMV, and the DMV says Cruise didn't because they managed to get an a
by chroma 3y ago
Cruise said they shared all the video from the crash with government agencies including the DMV, and the DMV says Cruise didn't because they managed to get an additional video from another government agency. So how could Cruise be hiding the video if another government agency has it? It seems much more likely that Cruise shared everything and there was some mix-up with the California DMV. I've encountered that situation many times. The most egregious example was them fining me for not paying registration fees on a vehicle I had sold over five years earlier.
I know there's nothing that will ever convince you that autonomous vehicles are safe, but please think about what safe autonomous vehicles would look like if they were rolled out. These sorts of stories get tons of eyeballs, so journalists are trying to find any example of an autonomous system harming people. Even better if you can blame tech companies for being negligent or irresponsible. So every single incident, even if it's caused by a psychopath hit-and-run driver, is blamed on the machine. And every detail is exaggerated and misconstrued to make the machine (and the manufacturer) seem as terrible as possible. So the stories simply don't matter. The figure of merit is fatalities per passenger mile. Currently, Cruise's is zero.
Cruise employees are riding in these vehicles, as are their family members. They walk near these vehicles every day. If they actually believed they were unsafe, they'd deploy the vehicles far away from their homes.