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Law firm hired by Cruise says Cruise didn't mislead regulators, they just had trouble using the internet. Verge proceeds to repeat the claim uncritically (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Actual framing:

Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet / An independent review of an incident in which a driverless Cruise vehicle dragged a pedestrian over 20 feet concludes the company has connectivity issues.

My expectations for journalists are low but goddamn

archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240126195607/https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050791/cruise-pedestrian-dragging-video-driverless-report

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

yeah the thing that's so utterly absurd is that those vehicles are literally fucking telemetry++++ on wheels.

I refuse to believe, on rational (hue hue) presumption alone, that they didn't have the facility to detect this. and there are plenty of other indications that they knew, and that they intentionally obscured this

how this thing is handled makes me hate that legal system (from afar), doubly so because of how much hegemony means it has impact elsewhere