General Motors’ startup Cruise is recalling 80 autonomous vehicles for a software update.
Startup Cruise, working for General Motors, announced Thursday that they are recalling 80 autonomous vehicles. The software is updated for the cars. The reason for this lies in one thing accident, which happened in San Francisco in June and left two people injured.
Apparently, the software is causing problems in predicting which route an oncoming vehicle will take. The update aims to fix this bug. the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) discovered the error while turning left. The cruise vehicle would then not react sufficiently to sudden navigation changes.
Cruise also announced that a turn-by-turn order was imposed on vehicles following June 3. For this purpose, the area in which the vehicles operate has been reduced. After the software update in July, the problem was partially fixed. However, the green arrow for turning vehicles was not mastered. The previous software sometimes caused heavy braking during the left-hand bend to avoid an accident.
While Cruise now touts the improvements and emphasizes that the other party involved in the accident with speeding is the main culprit, NHTSA underscores the risk of accidents when an automated driving system reacts inappropriately. The recall was also a recommendation from NHTSA.
Cruise has been operating the driver service since June commercially. There was one whistleblower, who indicated that Cruise’s vehicles are not yet ready for such a milestone.