GM/Cruise Leaks Show Them Ridiculously Behind Waymo. It's Time For Better, More Public Metrics

Last week, my colleagues at The Information published some interesting leaks from GM/Cruise, about how they are failing to meet important internal milestones (Paywall.) In particular, the report states that the forecast is that Cruise will, by the end of 2019, have a vehicle that performs at between 5% and 11% of the safety level of average human driving, when it comes to frequency of crashes. As such, Cruise will miss its 2019 goal of deploying a commercial service, though it might deploy one with safety drivers. Cruise has set milestones with many similarities to what I and others have proposed, and similar to what Waymo has been measuring. When they have a safety driver disengage, they play back the situation in simulator and see what would have happened.