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edition of the 11th year of SmartDrivingCars eLetter
Under Fire Over Robotaxi Safety, GM Halts Production Of Cruise Driverless Van
C. Farivar, Nov. 6, "Reeling from a month in which the California DMV yanked Cruise's permits for its self-driving robotaxis and the company paused all operations, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt held an all hands meeting Monday to explain how the company was planning to address concerns that its autonomous vehicles are not yet safe enough to operate. One of the very first announcements: pausing production of a fully autonomous van called the Origin, which Cruise parent company GM was planning to ramp up in the imminent future.
According to audio of the address obtained by Forbes, Vogt remarked on the company's recent decision to halt driverless operations across its entire autonomous vehicle fleet, telling staff that "because a lot of this is in flux, we did make the decision with GM to pause production of the Origin."? …"
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Hmmmm…. Pausing is fine and likely a good decision; although, pauses necessarily incur additional cost; else, we would all pause all of the time. What is fundamentally troubling here is that one incident that could easily be characterized as a situation in which "the good actors", while doing everything right, unfortunately tried to do even a little more good, which unpredictably set off a chaotic effect, well-known in the mathematics of non-linear dynamical systems as Chaos theory.
What just happened? What have we learned? The ironies abound.
San Francisco is turning into THE "Training Set" of both what to do and what not to do for those building AI models for "The Real Case for Driverless Mobility" and for those struggling to do good for society.
The biggest lesson that is staring us in the face is that it is really important for all in this business to be able to collaborate and share as much as possible and safety related information including safety scenarios and approaches to being able to safely address those scenarios. These companies should NOT be competing on safety, because safety is a necessary condition. Unsafeness of one reflects poorly on all. The first legislation that Congress should pass of this technology should focus on anti-trust immunity to this industry related to safety. Safety is everyone's responsibility. We've benefited enormously by cooperating on safety in the airline industry. Alain
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