"Based on the simulation results, we can't rule out that a fully autonomous vehicle might have struck the child.""Based on the simulation results, we can't rule out that a fully autonomous vehicle might have struck the child."that the division has been long aware that its cars struggled to recognize children and as such risked running them down. And yet it apparently kept its robotaxis on the road, in another damning sign of a mismanaged company in crisis.
Simulated scenarios confirmed these fears. In one test, a Cruise robotaxi hit a toddler-sized dummy with its side mirror at 28 miles per hour — despite detecting it. "It's I think especially egregious to be making the argument that Cruise's safety record is better than a human driver," Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who focuses on self-driving technology, told. "It's pretty striking that there's a memo that says we could hit more kids than an average rideshare driver, and the apparent response of management is, keep going.