Self-driving taxis blocked an ambulance and the patient died, San Francisco fire department says

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Self-driving taxis blocked an ambulance and the patient died, San Francisco fire department says
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Documents obtained by Forbes detail over 70 instances of autonomous vehicles allegedly obstructing emergency responses since April 2022.

autonomous taxis occupied two lanes of a four-lane, one-way street, forcing a police vehicle in a separate lane to move to make space for the ambulance to leave.

“The [patient] was packaged for transport with life threatening injuries, but we were unable to leave the scene initially due to the Cruise vehicles not moving,” reads a portion of the. “This delay, no matter how minimal, contributed to a poor [patient] outcome… The fact that Cruise autonomous vehicles continue to block ingress and egress to critical 911 is unacceptable.”

Cruise representatives dispute the SFFD report, instead claiming the fleet vehicles did not hamper medical treatment in any way. “As soon as the victim was loaded into the ambulance, the ambulance left the scene immediately and was never impeded,” the company contends in a statement provided to, EMS maneuvered around a Cruise vehicle roughly 90 seconds after loading the victim into the ambulance.

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