<story><title>Cruise told by CA DMV to reduce robotaxi fleet 50% following crash</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/18/cruise-told-by-regulators-to-immediately-reduce-robotaxi-fleet-50-following-crash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuahedlund</author><text>&amp;gt; The latest Cruise incident occurred Thursday night when a Cruise robotaxi and an emergency vehicle crashed and left a passenger injured. Cruise said in a social media post that one of its self-driving Chevy Bolt EVs entered an intersection on a green traffic light at Polk and Turk streets when it was struck by an emergency vehicle that appeared to be en route to an emergency scene.&lt;p&gt;Noticing and responding to emergency sounds&amp;#x2F;signals in the road, distant but approaching, is yet another subtly complex aspect of human driving I hadn’t thought of but which seems obvious in retrospect. Seems solvable in theory but also involves a lot of uncertainty and contingencies. Then I suppose the cone-blocking hackers will start playing siren recordings to confuse the robotaxis…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swid</author><text>Cruise released a statement which said the car did hear the siren when it was louder than background noise.  No indication how close the siren was for that to happen, but it sounds pretty definitive that audio sensors are already part of the kit.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cruise told by CA DMV to reduce robotaxi fleet 50% following crash</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/18/cruise-told-by-regulators-to-immediately-reduce-robotaxi-fleet-50-following-crash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuahedlund</author><text>&amp;gt; The latest Cruise incident occurred Thursday night when a Cruise robotaxi and an emergency vehicle crashed and left a passenger injured. Cruise said in a social media post that one of its self-driving Chevy Bolt EVs entered an intersection on a green traffic light at Polk and Turk streets when it was struck by an emergency vehicle that appeared to be en route to an emergency scene.&lt;p&gt;Noticing and responding to emergency sounds&amp;#x2F;signals in the road, distant but approaching, is yet another subtly complex aspect of human driving I hadn’t thought of but which seems obvious in retrospect. Seems solvable in theory but also involves a lot of uncertainty and contingencies. Then I suppose the cone-blocking hackers will start playing siren recordings to confuse the robotaxis…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsder</author><text>&amp;gt; Then I suppose the cone-blocking hackers will start playing siren recordings to confuse the robotaxis…&lt;p&gt;Ummm, that would even confuse normal drivers, and I hope that it would wind you up in jail.&lt;p&gt;Those siren sounds get played on the radio sometimes, and I really wish that it was illegal to do so.</text></comment>