FOX Business' Liz Claman spoke with General Motors CEO Mary Barra about GM's cruise robotaxi division. They discussed self-driving car technology and safety, and got Barra's reaction when Arm CEO Rene Haas described riding in a cruise car.
An analysis has been commissioned that suggests a series of technical faults caused a woman to be hit and dragged by a cruise robo-taxi in October. general motors I showed it on Thursday.
The College of Engineering's report said that failure to detect the woman's location, inaccurate detection of which part of the car hit her, and errors regarding the location of the car itself kept the vehicle in emergency mode even after hitting the woman. The vehicle continued to drive without stopping. Consultancy firm Exponent.
San Francisco women dragged 20 feet He was hit by a vicious unmanned vehicle and was injured but survived.
GM has suspended Cruise's robotaxi business amid a safety investigation following the accident. The incident was a major setback for the entire self-driving car industry and prompted an investigation by the Department of Justice.
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On July 24, 2023, unmanned robot taxi “Cruise” is operating in San Francisco, California, USA. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images / Getty Images)
A technical report by Exponent, part of a report by law firm Quinn Emanuel, provides a second-by-second account of how the accident unfolded and details the technical errors.
The accident occurred after the woman was struck by another vehicle traveling one car length ahead in an adjacent lane, throwing her into the path of the Cruise self-driving car.
The cruise robotaxi could not have predicted the accident, according to the report. Sensors detected that the other car had collided with a pedestrian and slowed for just a few seconds before colliding with the woman herself.
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A protester holds a placard during a demonstration in front of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on August 7, 2023 in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/Getty Images)
She then moved out of sight of the robotaxi's LIDAR object detection sensors. Exponent said the cruise car struck her with its left wheel before coming to a stop.
The cruiser mistook the collision as a side collision rather than a head-on collision. Instead of coming to an emergency stop, the robotaxi proceeded about 20 feet at 12.4 miles per hour, dragging the pedestrian underneath it to pull it to the curb for safety.
The review said the car also had a location error, failing to recognize when it was already in the lane next to the curb.
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A safety review has determined that the accident in which a woman was hit and dragged by a GM Cruise robot taxi in San Francisco on October 2, 2023, was caused by a series of technical errors. (Andrei Sokolov/DPA/Reuters Photo)
According to Exponent, the wide-angle left camera showed the woman's legs and lower legs from the time of the crash until the final stop, but even though the woman's feet were momentarily detected, the cruise robotaxi did not classify the woman. He said he did not track or track the incident.
The report added that there were no problems with the robotaxi's sensors or vehicle maintenance.
Cruise announced in a blog post Thursday that it had updated its software to fix the underlying issue.
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The report stressed that a human driver would have performed better.
“After an AV makes contact with a pedestrian, an alert and attentive human driver would not notice that some kind of impact had occurred and continue driving without further investigating the situation,” the expo said. Nent said.
Reuters contributed to this report.
