Kyle Vogt, the CEO of General Motors' robot-taxi unit Cruise, has resigned from the company a day after apologizing to staff as the company undergoes a safety review of its U.S. fleet.
What I find interesting is let’s say everyone had self driving cars in its current form tomorrow. Culturally, the underlying implication is that people are ok with giving up their autonomy with respect to driving their own vehicles. A pure machine learning based system in that scenario wouldnt even be ideal - it seems like it would be better to have a transponder type system where every car transmits their location to each other and to nearby control systems that also help direct traffic and car movement. Of course this means building up more infrastructure around traffic lights, stop signs, highways, wide open stretches of country roads, etc. but it feels like a more solvable and reliable solution than a ML based system, not to mention the fact that if we had 10 companies building self driving cars, every system would have slightly different behaviors
What I find interesting is let’s say everyone had self driving cars in its current form tomorrow. Culturally, the underlying implication is that people are ok with giving up their autonomy with respect to driving their own vehicles. A pure machine learning based system in that scenario wouldnt even be ideal - it seems like it would be better to have a transponder type system where every car transmits their location to each other and to nearby control systems that also help direct traffic and car movement. Of course this means building up more infrastructure around traffic lights, stop signs, highways, wide open stretches of country roads, etc. but it feels like a more solvable and reliable solution than a ML based system, not to mention the fact that if we had 10 companies building self driving cars, every system would have slightly different behaviors