TECH - GM's Cruise Says Its Self-Driving Cars Beat Humans — And Has The Data To Prove It | Benzinga
General Motors Co‘s (NYSE:GM) autonomous vehicle subsidiary, Cruise, asserts that its self-driving cars outperform humans, despite a plethora of reports about the vehicles bringing traffic to a standstill.
What Happened: CEO Kyle Vogt said Cruise’s autonomous vehicles were involved in 65% fewer collisions compared to ride-hail drivers in San Francisco. Additionally, they experienced 74% fewer collisions with a significant risk of injury.
These statistics are based on a comparison with a “human ride-hail benchmark,” a standard established by researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute in collaboration with General Motors and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute.
The research analyzed 5.6 million miles of human ride-hail driving data in San Francisco from 2016 to 2018 to establish this benchmark. According to Cruise’s ...