GM's Cruise sheds nine execs in the name of safety and integrity

GM’s self-driving taxi outfit, Cruise, has dismissed nine execs – including its chief operating officer – after staff withheld information regarding an incident in which a woman was injured by one of the firm's robotaxis. "Today, following an initial analysis of the October 2 incident and Cruise's response to it, nine …

[Toni the terrible]

Parking

Parking on top a pedestrian seems rreasonable, after all its only training for the rise of the AI machines.

[Strahd Ivarius]

Re: Parking

it was performing a "citizen arrest" after said pedestrian was seen trying to destroy another car

[Brian 3]

Re: Parking

I suspect it's CAPTCHA driven - someone was feeling fatigue from being accused of robotism again so they were larking on the second CAPTCHA, teaching the "AI" model that citizen == parking space.

[chuckufarley]

Oh my god!

How long will this sanity last?

Seriously though, it's good to see that the wheels of justice turned a bit. Now about that victim?

[CowHorseFrog]

Re: Oh my god!

What justice ?

Did the excutives get jail time or a payout ?

[Pascal Monett]

"dismissed nine execs"

Well, nice to see that they didn't go after a rogue engineer. Kudos for that.

Now, to get that car secure for the road. Seems that the job isn't finished.

[Michael Wojcik]

Re: "dismissed nine execs"

Well, they also canned a quarter of the workforce, so I don't think Engineering escaped unscathed.

[Andy The Hat]

Surely, given that he's apparently responsible for everything bad, someone is going to blame Elon for this?

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone is going to blame Elon for this?

@Andy The Hat: "Surely, given that he's apparently responsible for everything bad, someone is going to blame Elon for this?"

Is this Elon a friend of yours?

[Zack Mollusc]

Good start.

They have successfuly increased integrity by sacking CEOs , but to maintain it they need to resist employing any replacements.

[CowHorseFrog]

Re: Good start.

So paying people without zero tangible skills claiming multi million dollar compensation over actual skilled workers is integrity ?

[MachDiamond]

Fascinating, thought Mr Spock

I wonder if any of the programmers of autonomous driving software ever considered the situation of having somebody lying in the road. A human would slam on the brakes and have a bit of a freak-out if they came across an accident victim lying injured in the road. A robotaxi, not so much. Perhaps it thought, umm, classified the person only a speed bump.

I'd like to stake my claim that a day or so ago I predicted the chance that Cruise would be wound up. This may be a good indicator that GM is finding the risks to be more than the rewards.

If I'm out of town and need to take a taxi, I like to ask the driver about places to go and those areas to avoid. A robot could be programmed for that, but it would be like adwords. The businesses would have to purchase recommendations for the robo taxis to mention them where a human driver might get some commission, but it might be as completely crass since they'd a bad review if they pointed people at places that were a complete rip-off. It's easy enough to go online and find a good steak house, but it's another to find who is making the best take away curry close by.