San Francisco. Automaker GM’s self-driving car Cruise AV crashed into a city bus after its self-driving software failed to predict the vehicle’s speed, prompting the company to now issue a voluntary recall to update the software in 300 robotaxis. has been issued.
The issue resulted in a collision on March 23, 2023, in which a Cruise AV incorrectly predicted the movement of a San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority (MUNI) bus.
Cruise’s self-driving software failed to accurately estimate the speed of the bus and collided with the rear after ‘slowing too late to avoid a rear-end collision with the bus’.
Cruise founder and CEO Kyle Vogt said that “fender benders like this rarely happen with our AVs, but this incident was unique.”
“We do not expect our vehicles to be behind a city bus under any circumstances, so a single incident of this nature deserves immediate and careful study,” he said in a statement.
The company then filed a voluntary recall with the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The CEO said, “Less than an hour after the collision, we had fully assembled a team to investigate the incident. We moved quickly to notify our state and federal regulators about the incident went and made our team available to answer any questions they might have.”
Cruise said in a regulatory filing that the software recall was issued because of a ‘rare situation’ in which the self-driving system caused the driverless robotaxi to ‘apply hard brakes during an unsafe left turn’.(IANS)
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