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Cruise reached a more than $8M settlement with dragged SF pedestrian
- readyman 2y ago>The current condition of the pedestrian remains unknown. Probably part of the settlement :(
- killingtime74 2y agoSpeculating, it's probably pretty bad if they're paying this much.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoThe woman's injuries were clearly severe by the length of her hospital stay, but I'm not sure you can tell that by the size of the settlement. This is the incident whose subsequent cover-up has cost Cruise literally billions of dollars in lost funding and permits. A savvy lawyer promising to drag it into the public eye for however long it takes the courts to rule could easily get fuck-you sized settlements regardless of the actual liability because Cruise/GM want to stop the media circus at almost any cost.
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago2 Oct 2023 A woman was hit-and-run by a non-Cruise Nissan car who propelled her into the path of an a vacant Cruise vehicle that then ran her over and dragged her 20 feet more. They were later released from zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org in unknown condition. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/woman-run-autonomous-vehicle-san-francisco-18403044.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/woman-run-autono...
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- Terr_ 2y ago> They were later released from zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org It's like zombo.com, except you can't do anything, until it releases you? :p
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoHopefully it's not an Idiocracy-like hospital, but being a city/county public hospital it probably ain't a Good Sam or hotel-like Stanford with tasty patient food and painfully-nice staff. I just think the name comes across absurdly ostentatious "philanthropy" and the domain name is fucking ridiculous in length. Recall how SJ did (and others traditionally did) philanthropy quietly so as not to seem like guilt alleviation or hunting for approval or legacy.
- ok_dad 2y agoThe hospital is fine, I was there when I crashed a personal EV into a bus and needed an ambulance. There was no sign of zuck around there other than the name, I assure you. It operates like any other big city hospital I’ve been in (there have been several).
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoYes, I know. ;) It's a public hospital. How were the bills afterwards? Were there any surprises?
- ok_dad 2y agoI don’t recall paying more than my copay for my insurance (Kaiser).
- Terr_ 2y ago> the domain name is fucking ridiculous in length. I'm going to be honest, I just assumed that with some kind of copy-paste typo and I didn't even bother checking if it was a real domain.
- wmf 2y agoOn one hand this could happen to anyone so it's unfair to pin it on Cruise. OTOH the victim will sue no matter what so I guess this is what insurance is for. There's nothing to learn from this.
- pascoej 2y agoI’m not convinced a human driver wouldn’t notice running over something and the additional friction from dragging somebody over a distance.
- peterangular 2y agoAnecdotal of course, but even when I accidentally ran over a squirrel I _immediately_ noticed. Running a _person_ over and _dragging them_... well I think I would realize. Obviously this is some serious arm-chair speculation so take it with a grain of salt.
- willcipriano 2y agoI can feel the difference when I have a passenger in the car vs not.
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- nadermx 2y agoThat vehicular collision was horrendous.