As 2022 wrapped up, CEO Kyle Vogt took to Twitter to post about the company’s autonomous vehicles rolling onto the streets of San Francisco, Austin and Phoenix.
Local reports showed footage of confused vehicles clogging a residential cul-de-sac, driving into wet cement at a construction site and regularly running red lights.
They tallied nearly 75 incidents where self-driving cars got in the way of rescue operations, including driving through yellow emergency tape, blocking firehouse driveways, running over fire hoses and refusing to move for first responders.
“Our folks cannot be paying attention to an autonomous vehicle when we’ve got ladders to throw,” San Francisco Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson said in an August hearing.
Based on police reports and initial video footage from Cruise, the woman was first struck by a hit-and-run human driver whose vehicle threw her into the path of the driverless car.
The new video footage showed the Cruise car striking the pedestrian, running her over, and then dragging her an additional 20 feet at 7 miles per hour as it pulls to the curb and stops on top of her.
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As 2022 wrapped up, CEO Kyle Vogt took to Twitter to post about the company’s autonomous vehicles rolling onto the streets of San Francisco, Austin and Phoenix.
Local reports showed footage of confused vehicles clogging a residential cul-de-sac, driving into wet cement at a construction site and regularly running red lights.
They tallied nearly 75 incidents where self-driving cars got in the way of rescue operations, including driving through yellow emergency tape, blocking firehouse driveways, running over fire hoses and refusing to move for first responders.
“Our folks cannot be paying attention to an autonomous vehicle when we’ve got ladders to throw,” San Francisco Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson said in an August hearing.
Based on police reports and initial video footage from Cruise, the woman was first struck by a hit-and-run human driver whose vehicle threw her into the path of the driverless car.
The new video footage showed the Cruise car striking the pedestrian, running her over, and then dragging her an additional 20 feet at 7 miles per hour as it pulls to the curb and stops on top of her.
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