the cruise CEO doing damage control (and lying their ass off) on the orange site makes sense, because all the former remote safety drivers I’ve talked to (admittedly none at Cruise) have been in agreement that self driving is absolutely fucked and the cars are essentially being remote controlled a majority of the time. some of the companies are also having what we engineers call fucking obvious problems like the high end GPUs they’ve packed into the cars overheating constantly, or the self driving software crashing due to bugs, both of which are situations that require immediate safety driver intervention
also, have the self driving crowd at the orange site never driven near one of these things? my area is known for aggressive drivers, but everyone gives the shitty robot cars a very wide berth (plus every exterior surface on these things is covered in extremely expensive sensors, and even the smallest operational self driving company has more than enough funding to bury you in lawyers before they ever admit fault in an accident)
