GM’s driving system will be tested in U.S.
2022.12.16 07:53
GM’s driving system will be tested in U.S.
Budrigannews.com – The autonomous driving system in General Motors (NYSE:) vehicles has been the subject of a formal safety investigation, according to U.S. auto safety regulators’ announcement on Friday. Cruise LLC’s robotaxi unit
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), self-driving Cruise vehicles “may engage in inappropriately hard braking or become immobile” in certain instances.
“Even though they appear to be distinct, they each result in the Cruise vehicles becoming unexpected roadway obstacles,” the organization stated. The preliminary evaluation that the safety agency conducts entails 242 Cruise autonomous vehicles is the initial step before it can pursue a recall.
The reports of three accidents in which Cruise vehicles were struck from behind by other cars after the autonomous vehicles slowed down quickly prompted the investigation.
With a small fleet of Chevrolet Bolt EVs, Cruise is providing limited service in San Francisco.
“There’s always a balance between healthy regulatory scrutiny and the innovation we desperately need to save lives, which is why we’ll continue to fully cooperate with NHTSA or any regulator in achieving that shared goal,” Cruise stated. “We’ve driven nearly 700,000 fully autonomous miles in an extremely complex urban environment with zero life-threatening injuries or fatalities.”
NHTSA said it plans to completely survey the potential wellbeing related issues presented by these two sorts of episodes and will audit “the shared characteristic and security rationale of the hard slowing down occurrences” and the “recurrence, span and security results related with the vehicle immobilization episodes.”
Cruise’s Chief Operating Officer Gil West disclosed to Reuters last month that the company intends to expand into “thousands of vehicles” in 2023 and enter “a large number of markets.”
The problems “may introduce multiple potential hazards such as a collision with a Cruise vehicle, risk to a stranded passenger exiting an immobilized Cruise vehicle, or obstruction of other traffic including emergency vehicles,” according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
“In response to another road user that was quickly approaching from the rear,” the automated driving system of a Cruise vehicle “initiated a hard braking maneuver,” according to the agency. The other motorist struck the ADS-equipped vehicle in the rear in each case.”
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Cruise claimed that their vehicles were not ticketed by the police in any of the three crashes.
“May strand vehicle passengers in unsafe locations, such as lanes of travel or intersections, and become an unexpected obstacle to other road users,” NHTSA stated of multiple reports of Cruise vehicles operating without onboard human supervision becoming immobilized.
After a crash in San Francisco in June that injured two people, Cruise recalled and updated the software on 80 self-driving vehicles in September. The recalled software could “incorrectly predict” the path taken by an approaching vehicle, according to the NHTSA. Journey said it had decided this surprising situation wouldn’t repeat after the update.
In February, GM and Cruise said that they asked the NHTSA to let them use some self-driving cars without steering wheels, mirrors, turn signals, or windshield wipers. That petition remains unsigned.
