This has to be done in fairness to Elon Musk.

8/22/2023 7:44:36 PM

first up: 311 Cruise

8/22/2023 7:50:45 PM

News articles and pictures are not only welcome, but encouraged

8/22/2023 7:56:03 PM

Sorta feels like this story from The New York Times should've been used to kick off this thread: "Cruise Agrees to Reduce Driverless Fleet in San Francisco After Crash."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/technology/cruise-crash-driverless-car-san-francisco.html

Quote :

"On Friday, the California Department of Motor Vehicles, which regulates the safety of the driverless cars, asked Cruise to halve the number of vehicles it was operating in San Francisco. The Cruise vehicle’s collision with a fire truck the day before had injured a passenger in the driverless car. Earlier in the week, another Cruise vehicle got stuck in newly poured concrete on another city street."

Quote :

"Last weekend, about 10 Cruise vehicles stopped functioning in the middle of a busy street in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, blocking traffic for 15 minutes."

[Edited on August 23, 2023 at 8:17 AM. Reason : ///]

8/23/2023 7:48:04 AM

I was sitting here trying to figure out what cruises had to do with Musk

8/23/2023 8:51:34 AM

Seems to me they have some credibility problems at the moment. The wet cement is a tough one.

8/23/2023 8:55:59 AM

Growing pains. Excited to see these in Raleigh soon

8/23/2023 9:27:22 AM

so....we not talmbout Tom?

8/23/2023 9:29:23 AM

I saw one on Capital Blvd this morning.

The human driver didn't wave back at me credibility -1

8/25/2023 8:19:32 AM

And we KNOW he had his hands free!

8/25/2023 8:54:59 AM

tom cruise fuckin sucks

8/25/2023 9:23:08 AM

AI and driverless cars seriously need to turn off

8/25/2023 10:35:58 AM

^^ nah

8/25/2023 12:29:54 PM

^yah

8/25/2023 1:03:09 PM

Tie goes to the hater.

8/25/2023 1:30:16 PM

Please show your work. I'll start: Vanilla Sky

8/25/2023 1:52:15 PM

mission impossible series has been pretty decent, that autism savant movie was nice, that, or rather, those lawyer ones. some people said he saved hollywood with top gun after covid? I don't really know anything about the industry, but that's something I guess

he has his own area within which he maintains a certain standard that we can respect

[Edited on August 25, 2023 at 2:18 PM. Reason : -]

8/25/2023 2:17:29 PM

but, hear me out, he's a weirdo douche

8/25/2023 3:01:34 PM

what'd he do

8/25/2023 3:26:48 PM

he was cool back when he still had that tooth lined up with the middle of his face

8/25/2023 3:30:06 PM

He's like the biggest scientologist in the world

8/25/2023 3:41:51 PM

^^lol

8/25/2023 3:46:22 PM

Cruise Self-Driving License Revoked After It Withheld Pedestrian Injury Footage, DMV Says

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ba3/california-dmv-suspends-cruises-self-driving-car-license-after-pedestrian-injury

Quote :

"In the Order of Suspension, the California DMV said that the Cruise vehicle initially came to a hard stop and ran over the pedestrian. After coming to a complete stop, it then attempted to do a 'pullover maneuver while the pedestrian was underneath the vehicle.' The car crawled along at 7 mph for about 20 feet, then came to a final stop. The pedestrian remained under the car the whole time."

[Edited on October 24, 2023 at 3:46 PM. Reason : pulled a quote]

10/24/2023 3:45:26 PM

Pulled quote. Might be out. . .

. . . of a license.

10/24/2023 6:39:11 PM

If I had lasting injuries from a robot car, I would be very angry

10/24/2023 7:00:53 PM

Even if I somehow miraculously healed in like a week, I’d prob always be nervous near autominous vehicles, had this happen to me

10/24/2023 8:17:00 PM

Baby you're a song

You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise

10/25/2023 3:00:28 AM

*baby you a song

10/25/2023 8:12:00 AM

Take it up with Google

10/25/2023 9:22:57 PM

The pedestrian was initially hit by a normal driver, flew up in the air, and landed in front of the Cruise car… not really cruises fault there

However the car continuing to drive after that is cruises fault. Wonder if they’re going to put detectors under the car now…

10/30/2023 10:29:59 AM

Cruise Knew Its Self-Driving Cars Had Problems Recognizing Children — and Kept Them on the Streets

https://theintercept.com/2023/11/06/cruise-self-driving-cars-children/

Quote :

"Even before its public relations crisis of recent weeks, though, previously unreported internal materials such as chat logs show Cruise has known internally about two pressing safety issues: Driverless Cruise cars struggled to detect large holes in the road and have so much trouble recognizing children in certain scenarios that they risked hitting them. Yet, until it came under fire this month, Cruise kept its fleet of driverless taxis active, maintaining its regular reassurances of superhuman safety."

11/6/2023 7:08:18 PM

All self-driving cars should be programmed to ignore protestors illegally blocking the highway...that'd solve a lot of issues going on in this country. I say we all write to our local representatives and have them enact legislation to allow plowing through protestors illegally blocking the highway. Who's with me?

11/6/2023 8:52:23 PM

Cruise has LiDAR so as long as the children aren’t transparent it would avoid them.

11/6/2023 9:27:10 PM

moron is definitely the Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf of Cruise

11/6/2023 9:43:29 PM

Cruise is my shepherd

11/6/2023 11:46:19 PM

Cruise be like

11/7/2023 9:08:52 PM

Cruise recalls all of its self driving cars to fix their programming

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/08/business/cruise-recalls-self-driving-cars/index.html

Quote :

"Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving vehicle subsidiary, has recalled all 950 of its autonomous vehicles for a software update. Late last month, Cruise paused all its public testing operations while it investigated the incident that led to the recall."

11/9/2023 6:42:45 AM

After robotaxi dragged pedestrian 20 feet, Cruise founder and CEO resigns

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/after-robotaxi-dragged-pedestrian-20-feet-cruise-founder-and-ceo-resigns/

Quote :

"The CEO of self-driving car firm Cruise resigned yesterday following an accident in which a Cruise robotaxi dragged a pedestrian 20 feet. California officials accused Cruise of withholding key information and video after the accident, and the company's self-driving operations are on hold while federal authorities investigate."

11/20/2023 5:00:14 PM

Maybe Waymo will come to Raleigh instead…

11/20/2023 5:44:44 PM

Are these ceo’s bffs?

11/20/2023 9:40:52 PM

Cruise lays off 24 percent of its workforce

https://www.engadget.com/cruise-lays-off-24-percent-of-its-workforce-164800680.html

Quote :

"Cruise is laying off 24 percent of its workforce, the company confirmed to Engadget. GM’s self-driving subsidiary says it will cut approximately 900 employees, as first reported by TechCrunch and CNBC."

Merry Christmas!

12/15/2023 4:38:52 PM

12/29/2023 8:02:39 PM

how that computer gonna sit there and take that smh

12/30/2023 9:35:29 AM

GM's self-driving car division is under investigation by DOJ and SEC after pedestrian dragging incident

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/cars/gm-self-driving-car-unit-criticized/index.html

Quote :

"'We acknowledge that we have failed to live up to the justifiable expectations of regulators and the communities we serve,' Cruise wrote in its blog post on the report. 'In doing so, we also fell woefully short of our own expectations.' Cruise told CNN it is cooperating fully with the federal investigations but cannot comment on them."

GM's self-driving car company Cruise lost $3.48 billion in 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/31/cruise-self-driving-company-loss-gm/

Quote :

"Cruise, once regarded as a front-runner in the autonomous car industry, has been bleeding money since General Motors acquired it in 2016. While General Motors said Tuesday that it 'remains committed' to Cruise, the automotive giant also said it will reduce Cruise's expenses by about $1 billion to 'slow the cash burn and align with a narrower focus in 2024.'"

1/31/2024 7:09:51 PM