The headline misses the real controversy - they tried to cover up the incident and only reported what actually happened after the government came back and asked questions, because the reports from first responders didn’t line up with what Cruise themselves had reported.
There are also rumors of internal people who felt the cars weren’t safe, with a list of scenarios they didn’t handle acceptably. The cars really should have had human safety drivers ready to override the car while fixing those issues.
“As for what’s next for me, I plan to spend time with my family and explore some new ideas. Thanks for the great ride!” Vogt wrote.
kind of a tone-deaf statement
Thanks for the great ride!
Dragged 20 feet vs a beautiful golden parachute. They really do live in an alternate reality.
I remember reading about Cruise flooding cities with their robotaxis like 3-4 months ago, and their cars breakdown / creating traffic jams
I really hope there’s stricter regulation about it.
It would be a nice precedent, every time an ai fucks up the legal responsibility escalates directly to the CEO.
Or just whenever a corp. kills a person, the CEO goes to prison. Not the Marriott prison but standard prison with AD-SEG and shankings and stuff.
Actual accountability would be great.
Or better yet, treat corporations like persons. Fully. Put them on trial, if found guilty, dissolve them.
That’s just going to make every CEO a fall guy only.
Fair. The second option then, dissolve the corp. and have done with it.
