U.S. to decide soon on GM's request to deploy cars without steering wheels

https://lemmy.world/post/1531212

U.S. to decide soon on GM's request to deploy cars without steering wheels - Lemmy.world

U.S. to decide soon on GM’s request to deploy cars without steering wheels::U.S. regulators will soon decide on a petition filed by General Motors’ Cruise self-driving technology unit seeking permission to deploy up to 2,500 self-driving vehicles annually without human controls, a top auto safety official said on Wednesday.

I don’t understand how cars would work on their own with no input from a driver small-scale

I understand being able to type in “Drive to Walmart” and it can back out of your driveway and go to Walmart, but then what? It goes into the parking lot? It finds the first available space? What if you just wanted to go there to pick something up curbside? How can you tell it to go to a specific stall? What if you’re disabled and need to go to the handicap space? How can it tell if your authorized to use that space?

There’s so many little nuances that I don’t understand not being able to have a steering wheel to take control of and manually do things at some point.

I guarantee they have an app
That will require a subscription.