When I see links to MSN or Yahoo, I try to find where the story came
from.
This appears to be the original story:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/30/cruise-robotaxis-blocked-traffic-for-hours-on-this-san-francisco-street/
Prompted by this twit and a Reddit discussion.
https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1542346416256843776
Some @Cruise robotaxis appeared to be stuck in SF last night at the
corner of Gough St. and Fulton St.
Human ops apparently had to rescue them. Still some kinks to iron
out. pic.twitter.com/eXDocjVfHU
— Taylor Ogan (@TaylorOgan) June 30, 2022
The cars appear to have been stalled at the intersection of Gough and
Fulton Streets.
“We had an issue earlier this week that caused some of our vehicles to
cluster together,” a Cruise spokesperson said. “While it was resolved
and no passengers were impacted, we apologize to anyone who was
inconvenienced.”
The vehicles were recovered through a combination of remote assistance
and manual retrieval.
“The first thing I say to my co-worker is that they’re getting together
to murder us,” wrote the OP. “It was a pretty surreal event. Humans had
to come and manually take the cars away. Cruise should get fined to shit
for blocking the street off for so long. They even made it so the street
sweeper couldn’t hit an entire block.”
Fines for blocking the street sweeper are around $76 per car in San
Francisco. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA)
did not respond to TechCrunch’s requests for more information about how
it handles such situations with autonomous vehicles and whether Cruise
will receive any fines for blocking the intersection.
The issue calls into question the policy cities need to build around
autonomous vehicles when they break the law, as well as Cruise’s own
operational protocol for these types of incidents.
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