“Given the damage caused by last night’s storms, some of our cars briefly entered areas with downed trees or power lines,” Cruise said.
at the intersection of Leavenworth Street and Clay Street in Nob Hill where two Cruise-branded Chevrolet Bolts were wrapped in wire and tape late Tuesday.TwitterTwo large trees, he explained, fell along Clay Street on Tuesday evening: one on the street itself near the Polk Street intersection, and another, shortly after, on the Jones Street intersection. The latter tree crashed down into power lines for the 1 Muni line — which as of publication, is still rerouted.
The tape and wire eventually entangled Cruise's autonomous cars as they drove through Nob Hill. Bettencourt compared them to “flies in sticky traps” in a tweet. He emphasized in follow-up tweets that he did not want to cast aspersions on the vehicles,that he merely captured “something crazy that happened in an equally crazy weather pattern and one that happened on my street.”
Two Cruise cars in San Francisco became wrapped in downed Muni wires and caution tape at Leavenworth Street and Clay Street on March 21, 2022.A reply from Cruise’s Twitter account explained that response teams were “immediately dispatched” to remove vehicles that were stuck. “Given the damage caused by last night’s storms, some of our cars briefly entered areas with downed trees or power lines,” Cruise’s tweet read.
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