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Driverless car from GM’s Cruise and motorcycle collide in San Francisco

An autonomous vehicle bonne coque iphone x owned by Cruise, the autonomous car startup that was acquired by GM last year, coque iphone paillettes eau struck a coque de samsung a5 2016 motorcyclist on San Francisco streets earlier this coque iphone métallique year. coque iphone coque samsung According to a filing with the California DMV, the motorcyclist was able samsung galaxy a5 2016 coque rose to walk away from the crash but reported shoulder pain and was taken to the hospital to receive medical samsung a5 2017 coque clapet care. coque samsung Cruise says that police at the scene determined the motorcyclist was at fault for the collision.

The Cruise vehicle was traveling in the middle lane of a three lane, one way street in San Francisco’s Lower Haight neighborhood. iphone 11 case coque samsung It spotted coque iphone 6s, spigen® a gap in traffic in the left lane and began changing lanes but then the gap started to close as the vehicle ahead slowed down. coque huawei bijoux personnalise So the Cruise car shifted back into the center lane.

Normally, that would be an unremarkable chain of events on native union coque iphone 6s San Francisco’s busy streets. Unfortunately, Cruise says, “a motorcycle that had just lane split between two vehicles in coque iphone 6 you are my person the center and right lanes moved into the center lane.” The motorcycle “glanced the side of the Cruise AV, wobbled, and fell over.”

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Cruise says coque iphone 6s stade rennais its car was traveling at 12 miles per hour, while the motorcycle was going 17 miles per protection coque iphone 7 hour.

“We test our self driving cars in challenging and unpredictable environments precisely because, coque iphone 6 dragonball by doing so, we will get better, safer AV technology on the roads sooner,” Cruise said in an email statement. bijoux pas cher “In this case, the motorcyclist merged coque iphone 7 galaxie into our lane before coque iphone 6 gris anthracite it was safe to do so.”

This is far from the coque iphone 5 donald first collision involving a Cruise vehicle on San Francisco streets. coque huawei Many of these involved another car rear ending the Cruise vehicle.

Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt has touted Cruise’s decision to test on San Francisco streets, arguing that the company’s software will learn the fastest if it’s operating in challenging urban driving environments.

“Our vehicles encounter challenging (and often absurd) situations up to 46 times more often than other places self driving cars coque double samsung a5 2017 are tested,” Vogt wrote.

He provided statistics in October showing that San Francisco vehicles encounter tricky situations like “pass using opposing lane” and “construction navigation” 20 to 40 times more often in San Francisco than etui coque samsung a5 2016 coque iphone 4s dobby in the Phoenix suburbs where Waymo and Uber are doing a lot of their testing.

Unfortunately, while California collects statistics on every autonomous vehicle accident and coque iphone 7 plus plastique posts the details to its website, we don’t have comparable information from the extensive testing that is happening in Arizona.

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