pedestrian
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GM’s Cruise Investigated Over Reported Pedestrian Injuries
General Motors’ autonomous vehicle company Cruise can’t shake the safety scrutiny over its driverless robotaxis. Now the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is digging into whether or not these AVs are safe for the pedestrians being forced to live with them. The NHTSA’s Office of Defects opened an investigation into Cruise on Monday. A…
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Ford Patents App to Tell Pedestrians When Autonomous Vehicles Won’t Stop for Them
Ford filed a patent last month for a smartphone app that would allow cars operating in self-driving mode to communicate with pedestrians via their phones. We’ve seen this idea before, despite being pretty terrible, and it’s the latest salvo in the war against pedestrians, bicyclists and anyone too poor or hippie to be in a…