General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has agreed to cut its fleet of San Francisco robotaxis in half as authorities investigate two recent crashes in the city.
The state Department of Motor Vehicles asked for the reduction after a Cruise vehicle without a human driver collided with an unspecified emergency vehicle on Thursday.
Cutting them in half is certainly one way to keep them from driving.
Can’t wait for them to cut the human fleet in half once they see how many crashes people cause!
Damn if only there were a way to get around in San Francisco that wasn’t driving or being driven!
So, how many other car crashes happened in the same time frame?
These crashes are all by the same “driver”. If one person crashed two cars in a day, don’t you think they should stop driving for a bit?
Hm, that’s actually a pretty good analogy. I haven’t thought of it that way before.
No it’s not. If that one person crashed twice after 500 trips and everyone else is crashing once after 200 trips, I’m still taking the person whose average crashes is more than two times less often.
How is that in any way comparable?
Don’t think we or they (autonomous vehicles.) are ready for it…
The only way they ever will be is with lots and lots of training.
They are more ready than human drivers.
