The focus on scaling the business and market share led to compromised safety measures at Cruz. There is a disagreement regarding the risk calculations for driverless cars, with some suggesting comparing them to human drivers. However, the real issue is the inevitability of accidents in self-driving cars, and the recent incident highlights that the AI made a tragic mistake worth exploring.
Apple’s Vision Pro headset is now for sale in stores. Will it live up to the hype? Kevin Roose and Casey Newton tried it out to see. Then, in a high-profile congressional hearing on child safety and social media, Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive, made an apology to families of victims of online child abuse. Is new legislation on the horizon? And finally, what the collapse of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company, means for the future of self-driving cars.
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