"Again, in aggregate this is 2-4% of time in driverless mode." Cruise confirms robotaxis rely on human assistance every four to five miles Let's say you're averaging 25mph through San Jose due to lights and such. Your 5 mile trip is going to take 12 minutes. For both of these statements to be true your ONE FUCKING TRIP is going to have a 15-30 second intervention. And yet there's Hacker News, lapping this shit up.
As if an intervention is gonna last only seconds, lol. I'm so glad I'm not the only one gobsmacked and outraged by that fact. Never thought that the definition of succes for a company like Cruise isn't "is this safe enough for rollout", but instead "are the downsides linearly scalable" like every other fucking startup.
We'll call it the Barra Rule: "obfuscate and cover-up until the outrage becomes self-sustaining"