The company left out some key details regarding the incident involving one of its robotaxis and a pedestrian.
On October 2, 2023, a woman was run over and pinned to the ground by a Cruise robotaxi. Given the recent string of very public malfunctions the robotaxis have been experiencing in San Francisco, it was only a matter of time until a pedestrian was hurt by the self-driving cars. New reports, though, suggest that Cruise held back one of the most horrifying pieces of information: that the woman was dragged 20 feet by the robotaxi after being pushed into its path.
The LA Times reports:
A car with a human behind the wheel hit a woman who was crossing the street against a red light at the intersection of 5th and Market Streets. The pedestrian slid over the hood and into the path of a Cruise robotaxi, with no human driver. She was pinned under the car, and was taken to a hospital.
But this is what Cruise left out:
What Cruise did not say, and what the DMV revealed Tuesday, is that after sitting still for an unspecified period of time, the robotaxi began moving forward at about 7 mph, dragging the woman with it for 20 feet.
read more: https://jalopnik.com/woman-hit-by-cruise-robotaxi-was-dragged-20-feet-1850963884
archive link: https://archive.ph/8ENHu
FYI, in Lemmy you have to put a > on the blank lines between paragraphs to make a continuous quote.
Sometimes it’s quite useful, as it allows you to separate quotes without having to insert filler in between, but if you treat it like reddit then it looks weird.
In any case, it’s not really the case that Cruise “didn’t tell anyone”, rather they took the commercial position of not admitting guilt. This is but a small facet of the issues surrounding self driving cars - but a far smaller issue than that of the car insurance industry as a whole. It’s more profitable for insurers to allow people to crash and kill each other than to switch to self-driving vehicles with a lower mortality rate but no one to pin liability on.
I am well aware I think it’s easier to see the quotations when you just leave them completely seperate
Fair play, sorry for sticking my nose in :o)