San Francisco rethinking driverless cabs after Cruise robotaxi crashes with an on-duty firetruck

A Cruise driverless robotaxi drove through a green light and collided with an on-duty fire truck in San Francisco.

San Francisco“I can see five different scenarios where bad things happen and this is one of them. It thinks it’s a road and it ain’t because it ain’t got a brain and it can’t tell that it’s freshly poured concrete,” resident Paul Harvey told SFGATE after seeing the taxi get stuck., according to city transit officials.officials asked the CPUC for a stay on robotaxi legalization while the city seeks a rehearing of the decision.

“We have seen that this technology is not yet ready, and poor AV performance has interfered with the life-saving operations of first responders. will suffer serious harms from this unfettered expansion, which outweigh whatever impacts AV companies may experience from a minimal pause in commercial deployment,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said in a statement Thursday.“The decision permits industry expansion without solving any of the underlying problems. We do not believe the industry has any incentive to remain at the table and solve their problems.

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