Cruise Grew Fast and Angered Regulators. Now It's Dealing with the Fallout

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Company Discovers "Move Fast and Break Things" Excludes Pedestrians

> Half of Cruise’s 400 cars were in San Francisco when the driverless operations were stopped. Those vehicles were supported by a vast operations staff, with 1.5 workers per vehicle. The workers intervened to assist the company’s vehicles every 2.5 to five miles, according to two people familiar with is operations. In other words, they frequently had to do something to remotely control a car after receiving a cellular signal that it was having problems.

That's dogshit lol. Looks more and more like waymo might be the winner take all here.

Do we have those figures for waymo?

We don't but anecdotally they're operating in Phoenix right now and everyone there seems to really like them. In contrast I've heard people say cruise is pretty nerve wracking to ride. Not a great answer but that's what we can see publicly.

I don't know if you've ever compared the street and topographic maps of San Francisco vs Phoenix, but it's not even playing in the same league.

Cheering on Waymo in Phoenix is like cheering that one's kid knocked some bowling pins down while using bumpers and the ramp.

So they replaced 1 human driver with 1.5 drivers. Nice!

LOL.

That's only the operation staff.

https://archive.ph/MpPSM

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