Houston Public MediaJun 11, 2024

General Motors' Cruise began test driving their autonomous vehicles in Houston again months after the faulty cars were pulled off the streets pending a federal investigation, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/transportation/2024/06/11/490253/cruise-relaunches-self-driving-vehicle-fleet-in-houston-amid-federal-investigation/

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Cruise relaunches self-driving vehicle fleet in Houston amid federal investigation

The vehicles are still the subject of a federal investigation launched by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a branch of the United States Department of Transportation last year after several reports of the driverless cars injuring pedestrians.

Houston Public Media
bs2Nov 7, 2023
> “These are not #SelfDrivingCars,” said Smith. “These are cars driven by their companies.”..
> ... an underlying tension between potentially life-and-death engineering problems and the effort to deliver the future as quickly as possible. With its parent company #GeneralMotors which purchased #Cruise in 2016 for $1.1 billion, hemorrhaging money on the venture, any setback for the company’s #RoboSafetyRegimen could threaten its #business.
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/06/cruise-self-driving-cars-children/
#CruiseVehicles
Cruise Knew Its Self-Driving Cars Had Problems Recognizing Children — and Kept Them on the Streets

Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving division, knew its cars sometimes had problems detecting children — but kept the vehicles on the road.

The Intercept
bs2Nov 7, 2023

#VRU is a new term for toddlers, often referred to as disease-vectors during flu-season.

> “We have low exposure to small #VRUs” — #VulnerableRoadUsers, a reference to #children — “so very few events to estimate risk from,” the materials say. Another section concedes #CruiseVehicles’ “lack of a high-precision Small VRU classifier,” or machine learning software that would automatically detect child-shaped objects

https://theintercept.com/2023/11/06/cruise-self-driving-cars-children/
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Cruise Knew Its Self-Driving Cars Had Problems Recognizing Children — and Kept Them on the Streets

Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving division, knew its cars sometimes had problems detecting children — but kept the vehicles on the road.

The Intercept