The driverless press refuses to ask Cruise if their “fully driverless” machine driver has a license, what test they passed and if their system/service is legal
In the wake of the “fully driverless” and “safety driver” barren car avoiding police and driving without its lights on at night, not a single reporter asks the brutally obvious question in the title of this article. Why is that? Cognitive dissonance caused by Maslow’s Triangle and the associated pressures and benefits of being in a massive echo chambers rules. They are far more pro-bono marketeers than reporters. Rarely reporting bad news or asking critical questions. (This includes Waymo, who carries paying passengers in Arizona, in this case.) I list a couple of these here:
· Isn’t it true many crash scenarios will have to be experienced in order to learn them? Won’t this will harm or kill “safety drivers” and those around them? Might that not be thousands of people?
· Do you believe you have the time and money to experience all the necessary scenarios and learn all the objects and degraded objects necessary to be at least twice as good as a human? Given progress to date, how can that be?
· Do you support Waymo suing the CA DMV to avoid providing safety data or proof of system capabilities? If so, why? If not, will you provide proof of capabilities to prove you have a driverless system, when you get to that point? To include all learned scenarios, especially crashes, disengagement with crash or likely crash scenarios called out, including in simulation, and proof of simulation model fidelity, especially sensors?
· Do Waymo and Cruise, who say they are fully driverless now, have a licensed driver? If not why? Do you believe that is a legal requirement? And if so, what test did they pass? And what should that test include?
· Is the reason most of your development and testing is not done in simulation is gaming-based simulation technology cannot produce high enough fidelity models, especially sensors, and run in proper real-time or faster to do so? Have you looked into aerospace/DoD simulation too resolve this?
I first asked about the core issues in my article here
How are Waymo and Cruise “Fully Driverless” Vehicles Legal?
• https://imispgh.medium.com/how-are-waymo-and-cruise-fully-driverless-vehicles-legal-5a25a495fdf1
Note 1 — For those of you who believe no license is needed, and point me to the CA DMV regulation, I believe it covers when there is a safety driver. Not when there is no human in the loop. I will be asking the police, CA DMV and DA about this.
Note 2 — I see in later reports the car didn’t flee, it was looking for a better place to pull over. I don’t see how that new spot was better.
Here are all the stories I found on the Cruise police evasion that did not ask the obvious question
GM’s autonomous EV “bolts” after being pulled over by police
https://thedriven.io/2022/04/11/gms-autonomous-ev-bolts-after-being-pulled-over-by-police/
Cruise Robotaxi Flees Police In Hilarious Video
https://carbuzz.com/news/cruise-robotaxi-flees-police-in-hilarious-video
Driverless GM Cruise Car Gets Pulled Over by the Cops, Makes a Run for It
Empty autonomous car pulled over by police, tries to flee
https://www.drive.com.au/news/empty-autonomous-car-pulled-over-by-police-tries-to-flee/
Video shows what happens when a driverless car gets pulled over
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/10/video-shows-what-happens-when-a-driverless-car-gets-pulled-over.html
Self-driving robotaxi caught on video baffling San Francisco police by speeding away during a traffic stop — but Cruise says it was all part of the plan
https://fortune.com/2022/04/11/cruise-self-driving-taxi-san-francisco-police-traffic-stop/
Cop stops driverless car, driverless car seems to flee, confusion ensues
https://mashable.com/article/police-stop-driverless-car
Here’s what happens when cops pull over a driverless Cruise vehicle
An autonomous Cruise vehicle left police confused when they tried to pull it over
https://www.engadget.com/cruise-vehicle-drives-away-from-police-194657296.html?src=rss
More here
The driverless vehicle press is purposefully ignoring a whistleblower with inside information showing a major AV maker is putting the public at risk
By not providing any meaningful proof of being driverless, even fighting doing through a lawsuit, Waymo, Cruise and Gatik are misleading the public, putting their lives at risk, and collapsing
Cognitive Dissonance and the Driverless Vehicle Industry
· https://imispgh.medium.com/cognitive-dissonance-and-the-driverless-vehicle-industry-83f878a2e393
The Autonomous Vehicle Industry can be Saved by doing the Opposite of what is being done now
How the failed Iranian hostage rescue in 1980 can save the Autonomous Vehicle industry
My name is Michael DeKort — I am Navy veteran (ASW-C4ISR) and a former system engineer, engineering, and program manager for Lockheed Martin. I worked in aircraft simulation, the software engineering manager for all of NORAD, a software project manager on an Aegis Weapon System baseline, and a C4ISR systems engineer for DoD/DHS and the US State Department (counter-terrorism). And a Senior Advisory Technical Project Manager for FTI to the Army AI Task Force at CMU NREC (National Robotics Engineering Center)
Autonomous Industry Participation — Air and Ground
- Founder SAE On-Road Autonomous Driving Simulation Task Force
- Member SAE ORAD Verification and Validation Task Force
- Member UNECE WP.29 SG2 Virtual Testing
- Stakeholder USDOT VOICES (Virtual Open Innovation Collaborative Environment for Safety)
- Member SAE G-35, Modeling, Simulation, Training for Emerging AV Tech
- Member SAE G-34 / EUROCAE WG-114 Artificial Intelligence in Aviation
- Member Teleoperation Consortium
- Member CIVATAglobal — Civic Air Transport Association
- Stakeholder for UL4600 — Creating AV Safety Guidelines
- Member of the IEEE Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous Systems Policy Committee
SAE Autonomous Vehicle Engineering magazine editor calling me “prescient” regarding my position on Tesla and the overall driverless vehicle industry’s untenable development and testing approach — (Page 2) https://assets.techbriefs.com/EML/2021/digital_editions/ave/AVE-202109.pdf
Presented the IEEE Barus Ethics Award for Post 9/11 DoD/DHS Whistleblowing Efforts
