Cruise CEO Says SF ‘Should Be Rolling Out the Red Carpet’ for Robotaxis, Threatens to Maybe Leave Town
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In his first major public interview since the DMV cut their San Francisco fleet in half, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said “we cannot expect perfection” from the self-driving cars, and vaguely threatened to leave town if regulators curtail them any further.

Cruise CEO says SF ‘should be rolling out the red carpet’ for robotaxis, threatens to maybe leave town::In his first major public interview since the DMV cut their San Francisco fleet in half, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said “we cannot expect perfection” from the self-driving cars, and vaguely threatened to leave town if regulators curtail them any further.

  • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    Denying “improvements” that cost innocent bystanders their life is the only responsible choice.

    I was game for the great experiment 10 years ago. But the tech just hasn’t gotten better, and arguably is worse today.

    It’s time to say enough is enough and restrict driverless tech to controlled areas.

    Being simply better than the average human isn’t enough here.

    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      I never said better than the average driver, I said better than human drivers (preferably by a long shot).

      So let’s say that means… Better than 90% of all drivers. That isn’t going to cost lives, it’s going to save them. Not to mention improve traffic flow.

      • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        Unlikely…to make an AI car safer than 90% than human drivers means it will respect the speed limit.

        That alone causes traffic jams and unsafe conditions around the car as people try to get around it.

        A human driver will somewhat go with the flow of traffic.

        An AI vehicle just won’t work until it’s a nearly perfect driver that can make human decisions.

        That’s not going to happen for a long time. Musk, with his revolving door of low cost engineers is actually making it all worse.

        Pull the plug on this experiment and put it back on the test track.