Why Self-Driving Cars Keep Crashing as Companies Try to Build Trust

Driverless companies like Cruise and Waymo have been rolling out more self-driving cars onto public roads as they try to increase public acceptance of their technology. But the increase in vehicles also increases the probability that one of these cars could have an incident that can damage both paintwork and reputation.
I analyze Cruise’s recent accident to explore how companies are working to build driver trust.
0:00 Public acceptance of driverless cars
0:45 The Cruise incident
1:43 Rebuilding trust
3:00 What’s next for the industry?
I'm George Downs, a WSJ video journalist fascinated by how technology is changing how we get from A to B. If you're interested in the future of mobility or how modern transportation-from EVs to eVTOLs, and beyond- can impact our lives, then don't forget to subscribe.
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  • @ryan-tabar
    @ryan-tabar6 ай бұрын

    They don’t need to be perfect, just make less mistakes than humans.

  • @OneManOnFire
    @OneManOnFire6 ай бұрын

    Meanwhile people are still crashing into each other and that's normal

  • @doraemon61377
    @doraemon613776 ай бұрын

    Technology is not simple when implemented in real world. We are not cartoon characters and we definitely do not live in a sci fi world. There is already a safe driverless car and that is train 😂

  • @luckymefpv
    @luckymefpv6 ай бұрын

    The reality is self driving cars are still safer than human drivers. We have normalized human driver fatalities and don’t report on them whereas this tech is new and is hyper focused on.

  • @Hari-ur9ve
    @Hari-ur9ve6 ай бұрын

    In India, when Uber driver screeches we DARE NOT cross the road bcoz of Rash driving.In US/Europe when a driverless car drives on road, pedestrians will DARE NOT cross the road too. So finally both countries will eventually have the same fear of Reckless drivers 😂🤣😅

  • @Nsmitty1
    @Nsmitty16 ай бұрын

    What we're casually brushing over here is that this happened in the first place because someone else, a regular human driver, hit the person first. The real problem is that people are unable accurately assess risk and are much more comfortable doing something that is extremely dangerous as long as they feel they are in control of risk themselves. As soon as they have to give up control, their perception of the danger involved shoots up dramatically.

  • @garyoak2974

    @garyoak2974

    6 ай бұрын

    Meanwhile a guy dragged someone for over a mile over here in los angeles at speed well over 7mph like 30+ I'd take 20 ft over the other any day.

  • @garyoak2974

    @garyoak2974

    6 ай бұрын

    And they can fix the issue with and exception error if collision occurs with pedestrian stop immediately don't move

  • @samuelevanssound

    @samuelevanssound

    6 ай бұрын

    Nope! Human beings love to act in ways that are objectively stupid - surely any human tech should take human stupidity into account before we release it to be used around humans 😂

  • @dzcav3

    @dzcav3

    6 ай бұрын

    @@garyoak2974 @garyoak2974 The guy who dragged someone should be criminally charged, but it's California, so all bets are off. Humans are held individually responsible for their mistakes and malice (California and left-wing cities being exceptions). Are the autonomous operators going to be held criminally liable? That's the big question The other issue is dealing with unplanned circumstances. Humans have an almost infinite capacity to deal with unexpected events; computer algorithms don't, and can't.

  • @garyoak2974

    @garyoak2974

    6 ай бұрын

    @dzcav3 that is what exception errors are for to handle unexpected input or circumstances in this case they just need to program it better clearly there was some oversight when planning the logic honestly nobody ever builds code perfect always bugs this is one of them could get fixed relatively easy just modify the code / exception for handling collision with pedestrians.

  • @tripledsm3195
    @tripledsm31956 ай бұрын

    They've been a reality since 1980s when they first appeared on roads, they were tested in traffic conditions also. However nothing spectacular has changed since then and I have no trust in this current technology

  • @StefanoFinocchiaro

    @StefanoFinocchiaro

    6 ай бұрын

    Hahaha 😂

  • @sterlingmarshel6299
    @sterlingmarshel62996 ай бұрын

    Everything has to be driverless for driverless to work. Can’t mix driverless with idiot human driving

  • @bigglyguy8429

    @bigglyguy8429

    6 ай бұрын

    Then get rid of driverless.

  • @darrenhoefler4447

    @darrenhoefler4447

    6 ай бұрын

    Exactly 100% but just like Guns whos giving yp there licenses to have safety short answer Nobody

  • @maemilev
    @maemilev6 ай бұрын

    Until my AI vacuum will not get itself stuck soo frequently, then you know the tech is ready.

  • @tnield9727
    @tnield97276 ай бұрын

    Wall Street Journal, can you please explore how often Cruise and other autonomous taxi companies use remote human intervention? This is the million dollar question.

  • @samuelevanssound

    @samuelevanssound

    6 ай бұрын

    I don’t think they’re reading the comments section on this video 😂

  • @rhobot75

    @rhobot75

    6 ай бұрын

    Hi! I have read I think in an SF local rag yesterday, either the Chronicle or the SF Weekly or perhaps the Standard.. anyway, that the driverless cars can't go more than 2.5 to 5 miles without human intervention.

  • @bigglyguy8429
    @bigglyguy84296 ай бұрын

    Instead of acknowledging it's not safe, this vid is all about how they can just push through and force these unsafe things onto us? How about NO?

  • @ceasarperez6246

    @ceasarperez6246

    6 ай бұрын

    Definitely safer than incompetent driver, or drunk drivers... driverless cards would save people's lives on the roads.

  • @luckymefpv

    @luckymefpv

    6 ай бұрын

    @@ceasarperez6246agreed

  • @petergoverts7723
    @petergoverts77236 ай бұрын

    They shouldn’t be in the road for another couple of year’s & government regulated & reviewed periodically

  • @lofton921
    @lofton9216 ай бұрын

    We will never have driverless cars. A simple reason is you have to solve for an unknown number or, more accurately, an infinite number of variables. I work in IT, specifically databases. Take, for example, a stop sign. The system scans the stop sign and the queries there database for the stop sign. You must have an exact match and one result for the car to stop. All it takes is to have a branch in front of the stop sign, and there is no match. The car blows through the stop sign. Think how many ways to alter stop. So there's no way we can solve every situation.

  • @PabloEder

    @PabloEder

    6 ай бұрын

    This isn’t true

  • @dzcav3

    @dzcav3

    6 ай бұрын

    @@PabloEder If it's not true, why do the "I'm not a robot" tests on websites use image recognition to sort out humans from robots?

  • @mammocas

    @mammocas

    6 ай бұрын

    For someone who "works in IT" you have absolutely no clue how modern computer vision software works, it's not like that at all.

  • @mack-uv6gn
    @mack-uv6gn6 ай бұрын

    Beta testing with human lives

  • @kbrich-nn8od
    @kbrich-nn8od6 ай бұрын

    No way in he'll I'm riding in a self driving vehicle'/!!!