San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped …
Buried the lede: last week, San Francisco firefighters had to shatter a front window of an uncrewed Cruise AV to stop it from interfering with them fighting a major fire in the Western Addition These robot “drivers” are way too dangerously unintelligent. https://www.wired.com/...
Three times since December, GM's driverless car unit Cruise called 911 in San Francisco because a passenger had become “unresponsive.” Each time, police and firefighters found the passenger had simply fallen asleep. The city says that wasted public funds. https://www.wired.com/..…
icymi, yesterday we published on a new letter from a clearly frustrated trio of SF agencies. They say the driverless vehicles operated by Cruise and Waymo are jamming up traffic, creating dangerous road situations, delaying public transit, and uh this https://www.wired.com/... ht…
San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped and idled in the middle of the street for no obvious reason. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
City agencies say the incidents and other disruptions show the need for more transparency about the vehicles and a pause on expanding service. https://www.wired.com/...