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Taking 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
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Taking 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...