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Cruise begins layoffs, starting with workers who supported driverless operations
- latchkey 3y ago"when a pullover is not the desired post-collision response" Facepalm. Who could write something as inhumane as that?
- zmgsabst 3y agoTaking the full quote: > notice filed with the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration that it issued the recall after an analysis of the robotaxi’s response October 2 found the “collision detection subsystem may cause the Cruise AV to attempt to pull over out of traffic instead of remaining stationary when a pullover is not the desired post-collision response.” I’m not sure what your concern is; that seems to plainly state the problem in what is a technical filing about why their product is defective. Can you explain more what you find so objectionable?
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoI was thinking the same and almost made a more poorly worded response, but then thought better of doing so after re-reading the paragraph. The sentence is written by Cruise, is in a passive tense (which tends to be used when people are seeking to deflect blame), and "may cause" is weasel-wording when the event showed that it "did cause", as is "not the desired" which is substituting for something along the lines of "a harmful"
- rob74 3y agoExactly - you could also describe the cause of the two Boeing 737 MAX accidents that killed 346 people as "undesired horizontal stabilizer deflection due to erroneous input data", but that doesn't mean you should...
- mvdtnz 3y agoThis article kept using the phrase "contingent workers" without defining it. I guess this is one of those Americanisms that they always expect everyone understands, like "401K" or "Chapter 11".
- AmericanChopper 3y agoThat phrase is used in every English speaking country I’ve been to. It basically means contractors.
- teruakohatu 3y agoI am a kiwi and I have never heard the term before. So at least one English speaking country doesn’t use it.
- rwmj 3y agoIt'd be true if he'd never left America.
- AmericanChopper 3y agoHilariously, I have worked as a contingent worker in New Zealand.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoAt least one Australian academic uses it when talking about workers in New Zealand: https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Strategies-for-managing-contingent-knowledge-workers/991012821066302368 https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/outputs/doctoral/S... > Strategies for managing contingent knowledge workers in New Zealand And this New Zealand company uses it on page 2 of this presentation (after previously using the terms "‘independent earners’, can be contractors, sole traders, freelancers, gig workers and independent consultants"): https://hnry.co.nz/uploads/The%20Future%20of%20Independent%20Earning%20-%20Dynamic%20Resourcing,%20Portfolio%20Careers%20and%20Individual%20Wellbeing%20(1).pdf https://hnry.co.nz/uploads/The%20Future%20of%20Independent%2... > Dynamic resourcing, the method of hiring a mix of permanent and contingent workers to respond to demand, is becoming more common in organisations. So yes, NZ uses it too, just as a more wonky term.
- anotherhue 3y agoWithout appearing as an apologist, was the behaviour during the incident _that bad_? Or more appropriately, that much worse than a human? Things like [0] happen frequently enough. https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/151zjba/truck_driver_keeps_driving_after_car_gets_jammed/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/151zjba/truck_...
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoIf a person screws up that bad do you thing they'd still be allowed to keep driving without having to jump through some hoops? Now multiply it by a software shortcoming that effects an entire fleet.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoTwo typos. I typed this too late at night/early morning.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoIt wasn't the behaviour during the incident that got them suspended, it was the lies afterwards