> “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.
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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.

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