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I'm disappointed to hear this news. So many people are killed by cars every year. We just take that for granted. Self-driving cars have the potential to drastically improve this and save many lives. I worry that these regulators are weighing the costs heavily while ignoring the benefits of innovation.

That said, I don't have access to the data and I don't really know if Cruise has been acting inappropriately. I'm glad that Waymo seems to be generating far fewer negative press reports, which seems to be a good proxy for whether regulators are going to clamp down. So I hope Waymo continues to operate successfully (and expands their service to me in particular) and I hope that Cruise improves their system and gets back online.



I'm not honestly.

Cruise was pushing too hard and fast for where their stack is at and they seem to have some severe safety related bugs.

Ex [1]: The car randomly starts swerving rapidly across traffic lanes towards an occupied sidewalk.

Ex [2] (@1:31): The car doesn't stop for someone already in the crosswalk and nearly hits them.

[1]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12640657/self-drivi...

[2]: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/video/driving-taxis-hittin...


[2] Not just fail to stop, but fail to reduce speed when turning off into a heavily congested side street with visual distractions, blind spots and a pedestrian crossing.

For some reason, I can't imagine literally any human driving quite like that?


> That said, I don't have access to the data and I don't really know if Cruise has been acting inappropriately.

That's a common response from people who would prefer NOT to know the facts.




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