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Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update (www.theguardian.com)
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Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update::All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

How did you arrive at that conclusion?

In a statement on Wednesday, the GM unit said that it did the recall even though it determined that a similar crash with a risk of serious injury could happen again every 10m to 100m miles without the update.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Emphasis goes on "even though".

As in "At GM we're so benevolent that we're doing a software update even though we think this will only kill someone every 10m miles (which we consider an acceptable murder rate for our cars)".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No one was killed in the accident they are stating the rate of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but a car running over a woman, dragging her twenty feet and parking on top of her, could easily have killed her.

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