Cruise Confirms Robotaxis Rely On Human Assistance Every Four To Five Miles

Lora Kolodny records by means of CNBC: Cruise chief executive officer and creator Kyle Vogt posted comments on Hacker News on Sunday reacting to claims that his firm’s robotaxis aren’t truly self-driving, yet ratherrequire frequent help from humans working in a remote operations center First, Vogt verified that the General Motors- had firm does have a remote assistance group, in reaction to a conversation under the header, “GM’s Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve ‘autonomous’ driving.” The chief executive officer created, “Cruise AVs are being remotely assisted (RA) 2-4% of the time on average, in complex urban environments. This is low enough already that there isn’t a huge cost benefit to optimizing much further, especially given how useful it is to have humans review things in certain situations.”

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