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Details have been released about the investigation into how Cruise’s self-driving car hit a pedestrian and dragged him underneath it.
Many experts attribute the standstill in the autonomous driving sector to General Motors’ cruise accident in October, but others say neither company has been able to achieve what they have been talking about for years in terms of safety and independence. In any case, it is now known how Cruise’s robot taxi hit a pedestrian and dragged him 6 meters underneath him – according to the investigation, there were numerous technical errors and problems.
Not only did Cruise cease operations, several official investigations were launched against the company in the United States.
According to the analysis, the car could not detect the position of the woman it hit or where it hit her. The car then made a mistake in another area when it continued driving instead of emergency braking – in the end, the woman survived the accident.
According to a technical report from Exponent and a report from law firm Quinn Emanuel, the accident occurred after another vehicle struck a pedestrian in the adjacent lane who was a car ahead. The pedestrian drifted in front of the Cruise AV, something Cruise’s car couldn’t predict. He felt the other car hit the pedestrian and braked just before he hit the woman too. However, after that he could no longer tell where he was as he could only see part of his legs, the rest was not detected by the lidar system. The left wheel of the cruise car ran over the woman, only then did it stop, and even then not immediately. He pulled it 6 meters under him at a speed of 12.4 kilometers per hour because the system reported a side impact and then wanted to stop the car for safety reasons. It turned out that stopping wasn’t necessary at all, but the system also made an error when reporting the situation. The car could not follow the pedestrian and his legs and therefore did not come to a stop in time.
No errors were found during sensors and maintenance. The software has since been updated, but the report said a human driver would have handled the situation better and would not have continued driving after the accident without analyzing the situation.
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