In this case a Cruise car was rear ended by a Cruise car driven by a human, because their unsophisticated software makes for the car to break hard. As explained in the article:
"...That said, the rear-endings demonstrate that the technology is far from perfect. Cruise cars follow road laws to a T, coming to full stops at stop signs and braking for yellow lights. But human drivers don’t—and Cruise cars will be self-driving among humans for decades to come..."
"...The fact that a driver Cruise trained to work with these vehicles still managed to rear-end one emphasizes exactly how flawed they are..."
This story is from 2018...the lidar-focused portion of the AV industry has advanced lightyears since then.
You may as well post an article about Eliza to make a pt about DallE.
And the limited domain you're describing for Cruise is the domain in which they've reached the statistical safety performance required to fully remove a safety driver. They and Waymo are driving all over the city during the day, with very few disengagements: it's been a couple years since they've been able to post credible evidence of long and complex disengagement-free drives.
The last epsilon% of safety performance is the hardest, and I'm not convinced they or Waymo can crack it soon. But your comments are horribly misinformed.
"...The regulators issued the permit despite safety concerns arising from Cruise's inability to pick up and drop off passengers at the curb in its autonomous taxis, requiring the vehicles to double park in traffic lanes..."
And after all those light years the LIDAR focused industry can't still see in fog, dust, rain or snow. An Eliza, just with more compute power and some badly
understood ML algos.
Yes, I have seen the demo videos of self driving cars on snow.
"A Cruise-on-Cruise Crash Reveals the Hardest Thing About Self-Driving Tech": https://www.wired.com/story/cruise-on-cruise-crash-hardest-t...
In this case a Cruise car was rear ended by a Cruise car driven by a human, because their unsophisticated software makes for the car to break hard. As explained in the article:
"...That said, the rear-endings demonstrate that the technology is far from perfect. Cruise cars follow road laws to a T, coming to full stops at stop signs and braking for yellow lights. But human drivers don’t—and Cruise cars will be self-driving among humans for decades to come..."
"...The fact that a driver Cruise trained to work with these vehicles still managed to rear-end one emphasizes exactly how flawed they are..."