{"id":1177895,"date":"2023-09-01T07:30:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1177895"},"modified":"2023-09-01T07:30:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:30:21","slug":"are-self-driving-cars-already-safer-than-human-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1177895","title":{"rendered":"Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>August was an eventful month for driverless taxis in San Francisco. On August 10, the California Public Utilities Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpuc.ca.gov\/news-and-updates\/all-news\/cpuc-approves-permits-for-cruise-and-waymo-to-charge-fares-for-passenger-service-in-sf-2023\">voted<\/a> to allow Google\u2019s Waymo and GM\u2019s Cruise to begin charging customers for driverless taxi rides across the city. A week later, Cruise vehicles were involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/8\/18\/23837217\/cruise-robotaxi-driverless-crash-fire-truck-san-francisco\">two<\/a> serious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/robotaxi-crashes-san-francisco-focus-autonomous-vehicle-safety\/\">crashes<\/a> within hours of one another. The next day, the California Department of Motor Vehicles demanded that Cruise <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/18\/cruise-told-by-regulators-to-immediately-reduce-robotaxi-fleet-50-following-crash\/?tpcc=tcplustwitter\">cut its driverless taxi fleet<\/a> in half while these crashes were investigated.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, New York Times reporter Cade Metz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/23\/podcasts\/the-daily\/driverless-cars-san-francisco.html\">appeared on the Times\u2019s flagship podcast<\/a>, The Daily, to discuss these developments and the state of the self-driving industry.<\/p>\n<p>Metz argued that in recent weeks, it has become \u201cmore and more clear to the people riding the cars, and to other citizens in the city, that they are flawed, that they do make mistakes, that they can gum up traffic, that they can cause accidents.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1964427#p3\">Read 63 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1964427&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1964427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August was an eventful month for driverless taxis in San Francisco. On August 10, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to allow Google\u2019s Waymo and GM\u2019s Cruise to begin charging customers for driverless taxi rides across the city. A week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1177895\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1177895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}