Cruise CEO says SF ‘should be rolling out the red carpet’ for robotaxis, threatens to maybe leave town::In his first major public interview since the DMV cut their San Francisco fleet in half, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said “we cannot expect perfection” from the self-driving cars, and vaguely threatened to leave town if regulators curtail them any further.

  • arin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Cruise already creating huge traffic deadlocks in Texas as their cars stop in the middle of the intersections

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      1 year ago

      Where do they operate in Texas? I go all over the state regularly, but I don’t usually go to the downtown areas where I would probably encounter one.

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        1 year ago

        Downtown Austin. I bet if they leave SF, they’ll move their entire fleet to Austin, which is terrible news.

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          Now I’m imagining a giant caravan of self driving cars going down the interstate. Known how well they perform, we’ll see them either blocking the left lane, or all lanes.