GM's Cruise is recalling 950 robotaxis, laying off driverless operations-supporting staff, and facing allegations its AVs have difficulty detecting children.
General Motors' Cruise autonomous driving unit just can't catch a break these days. The company has made headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent months, but things have precipitated since early October, when one of its robotaxis ran over a pedestrian who had been previously struck by a hit-and-run driver. That accident raised a series of questions after it was determined that the Cruise AV dragged the pedestrian 20 feet in an attempt to pull over out of traffic.
The documents revealed a major safety flaw, namely that the vehicle's algorithm has difficulty detecting children. 'Cruise AVs may not exercise additional care around children,' read one of the documents, in which childred are treated as a special category of pedestrians based on their unpredictability. Moreover, the document said robotaxis may 'need the ability to distinguish children from adults so we can display additional caution around.
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