Cruise, GM’s autonomous vehicle unit, agrees to halve its robotaxi fleet in San Francisco after two crashes involving its cars.
One of the incidents occurred on Thursday night when a Cruise vehicle without a human driver hit an emergency vehicle that was responding to a call. To avoid a red light, the emergency vehicle had switched to the lane with traffic coming from the opposite direction, Cruise said. The robotaxi had a green light and entered the intersection, but could not avoid the collision. The robotaxi was carrying a passenger, who was injured and taken to a hospital by ambulance.
Another incident happened on the same night when a Cruise car without a passenger collided with another vehicle in San Francisco. The details of this incident are not clear yet.on its website that it had detected the emergency vehicle as soon as it came into view and had braked to reduce its speed. It also said that it had interacted with emergency vehicles more than 168,000 times in the first seven months of this year alone and that it was committed to continuous improvement.
The robotaxi company also stated that it would collaborate with city departments and regulators to lower the chances of such crashes occurring again.Despite safety concerns, the California Public Utilities Commission gave Cruise and Google spinoffthe green light to operate autonomous robotaxis in San Francisco at any time, just over a week before the DMV’s decision. The decision made San Francisco the first major US city with two fleets of driverless vehicles competing for passengers.
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