Driverless companies in USA have been charged by labor companies 

Friday, December 22, 2023

Thirteen labor organizations levied charges against companies such as Waymo and Zoox (which is a subsidiary of Amazon.com), both based in California. Robotaxis and other for-hire driverless vehicles have been the subject of their investigations.

The investigation into US-based automobile companies was done to probe the safety of driverless vehicles.

While San Francisco-based Cruise LLC, a self-driving company, released a voluntary software recall for its fleet of 950 autonomous vehicles,. It temporarily put a halt to all its driverless vehicles in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and its suburbs.

Furthermore, a comprehensive federal investigation spanning the entire industry is required to ascertain the actual scope of autonomous vehicles. These vehicles’ safety flaws have led to dangerous and unpredictable operations, near-misses, collisions, injuries, and fatalities.

The coalition found light in the requirement that any major performance deviations be covered by the federal crash reporting requirements, which can be implemented by going beyond only crashes that involve driverless cars. The existing regulations do not take into account a number of ongoing incidents that put workers, pedestrians, and other road users in danger and have not been updated in more than two years.

The alliance also reiterated its earlier demands for a federal automated vehicle framework that prioritizes safety over the patchwork of state-by-state regulations that have grown out of the lack of strict federal oversight. Federal leadership is required to make sure autonomous vehicles are being operated safely, given the recent rise in the number of cities using them on public streets and the number of accidents involving them.

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