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> Viktor Tandofsky <vtandofsky@gmail.com> wrote in
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>> Lee wrote
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>>> Faggots can't do anything right. Everything they touch they fuck
>>> up.

US safety regulators are investigating reports that autonomous robotaxis
run by General Motors� Cruise can stop too quickly or unexpectedly quit
moving, potentially stranding passengers.

Three rear-end collisions that reportedly took place after Cruise
autonomous vehicles braked hard kicked off the probe, according to the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. At the time, robotaxis
were staffed by human safety drivers.

The agency also has multiple reports of Cruise robotaxis without human
safety drivers becoming immobilized in San Francisco traffic, possibly
stranding passengers and blocking lanes.

The reports of immobilized vehicles came from discussions with Cruise,
media reports and local authorities, NHTSA said in an investigation
document posted Friday on its website.

There have been two reports of injuries related to the hard braking,
including a bicyclist seriously hurt last March, according to the NHTSA
crash database.

NHTSA says it will determine how often the problems happen and potential
safety issues they cause. The probe, which covers an estimated 242
Cruise autonomous vehicles, could bring a recall. �With these data,
NHTSA can respond to safety concerns involving these technologies
through further investigation and enforcement,� the agency said in a
statement.

Cruise spokesman Drew Pusateri said the company is cooperating in the
probe, and that its vehicles have driven nearly 700,000 autonomous miles
in a complex city with no life-threatening injuries or deaths.

�This is against the backdrop of over 40,000 deaths each year on
American roads,� he wrote. �There�s always a balance between healthy
regulatory scrutiny and the innovation we desperately need to save
lives.�

He said police didn�t issue tickets in any of the crashes, and that in
each case, the autonomous vehicle was responding to aggressive or
erratic behavior of other road users. �The AV was working to minimize
collision severity and risk of harm,� Pusateri wrote.

In the clogged traffic incidents, Pusateri wrote that whenever Cruise
technology isn�t extremely confident in moving, it�s designed to be
conservative, turning on hazard lights and coming to a safe stop.

�If needed, Cruise personnel are physically dispatched to retrieve the
vehicle as quickly as possible,� Pusateri wrote. Such stoppages are rare
and have not caused any crashes, he wrote.

NHTSA said Cruise reported the three rear-end accidents under a 2021
order requiring automated vehicle companies to notify the agency of
crashes.

Reports of Cruise robotaxis becoming immobilized in traffic came from
the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and the San Francisco
County Transportation Authority, the agency said.

Cruise vehicles may strand passengers in unsafe locations, such as
travel lanes or intersections, increasing the risk to exiting
passengers. And they can become obstacles to other road users, causing
them to make unsafe maneuvers to avoid collisions. �The vehicles may
also present a secondary safety risk, by obstructing the paths of
emergency response vehicles and thereby delaying their emergency
response times,� NHTSA said in the document.

The municipal transportation agency, in comments to NHTSA, said that
starting in May, the city began to notice 911 calls from people who were
inconvenienced by Cruise operations. Some city police officers also saw
Cruise vehicles disabled in travel lanes. One incident in June involved
13 Cruise vehicles stopped on a major road. Two other large blockages
were reported in August, the agency said.

The probe comes at an important time for Cruise, which in June started
charging passengers for autonomous rides without human safety drivers in
San Francisco. It�s also a critical time for the autonomous vehicle
industry, with Google spinoff Waymo running a robotaxi service in the
Phoenix area with plans to expand to San Francisco. Other companies also
are moving toward services without human safety drivers.

San Francisco-based Cruise plans to expand the service to Phoenix and
Austin, Texas. The startup owned by GM has been testing autonomous
Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles for several years.

Al Miller
16 December, 2022

GM can't even make turn signals that work. What a joke!

Graniteville
16 December, 2022

They only signal left.

https://nypost.com/2022/12/16/gms-self-driving-cruise-probed-by-feds-over
-accidents/