A few days ago, police responded to a shooting at a San Francisco intersection that involved at least nine people. During the initial emergency response, a Cruise AV unit was allegedly blocking first responders from accessing the crime scene. Now, according to Cruise, the self-driving robotaxi was not in the way.
According to a report from The San Francisco Standard, a police officer was captured shouting at the Cruise AV unit because it was blocking emergency medical and fire access. Notably, the robotaxi was roughly one block away from the crime scene at the time of video.
“All of a sudden, there were cops, fire engines, and ambulances heading down Folsom toward 24th,” one bystander was quoted as saying. “The Cruise car just stopped on Folsom. An officer got out of his car and started pounding on the window, yelling at the car to get off the street and get out of the way.”
In response to the outcry this incident created, General Motors’ Cruise self-driving subsidiary claimed that emergency vehicles were never blocked from the crime scene, and the robotaxi removed itself from harm’s way.
“Our car initially stopped as it was approaching an active emergency scene, then proceeded to perform a U-turn and pull over,” a Cruise spokesperson was quoted as saying. “Throughout this time, all vehicles, including emergency response vehicles, were able to proceed around our car.”
Fellow Mission friends. Please stay away from 24th/Folsom. Gunshots fired; reckless Cruise cars. pic.twitter.com/fICRtS6e05
— Paul Valdez 🚲🏳️🌈 (@paulvaldezsf) June 10, 2023
In regard to the shooting incident itself, there were nine individuals who sustained injuries. According to officials, several victims suffered life-threatening wounds. That being said, everyone is expected to make a full recovery.
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Comments
Homeless aren’t living in it yet?
Aren’t these supposed to be under supervision while testing on public roads? Because it didn’t look like anyone was in the front seat.
Are these the Johnny Cabs in Terminator? I never see the Johnny, just empty seats.
Johnny Cabs were in Total Recall not Terminator.
Chris, you are exactly right, I do not know how I got Terminator, I even went to watch the Johnny Cab scenes in Total Recall and still messed it up.
Both were good movies though.
As some have been saying since day 1 these things are a menace and should not be allowed on public roads. As asked before, how does this vehicle respond to verbal commands, detours, flaggers, and etc? Outlaw them now!
Im gonna have to agree with police on this one they would not have just made up that it was in the way. Plus, the only one who disputes it is GM, and do you really think they would be honest with their self-driving vehicles faults? These are gonna be the growing pains of this technology, people will die, and things will happen that can’t be foreseen so there will be many, many lawsuits. I just hope when they happen ever who gets injured is allowed to sue the brakes off of gm for it. Hopefully our wonderful never do anything wrong government won’t grant gm immunity in such deals. It’s not like they would do that rite? Oh yeah forgot they are already did, big pharma got granted immunity for ever being sued when it comes to the covid vaccine and any effects it may ever cause. So with that said and known yeah they probably will grant them immunity.
Why is Mechanic Bill’s comment the only comment that has “click to edit” and “Request Deletion”? Does it have anything to do with the pharmacological comment?
We are not “allowed” to negatively address certain topics like: EV’s, or injections, or the existence of Rex Lex in our society vs original set up of Lex Rex…
Cheers, all is on schedule, according to plan.
Whenever a screw-up like this happens with these drones, they should be impounded immediately. It will only be a matter of time before one of these things will lead to the death of an innocent person.
Its already happened, don’t know what come of it, but its already happened with uber i think a couple of times.
I can”t stand AV’s or EV’s
Me neither Dave but I’m a car lover, and evs and bevs and avs have no soul jmho, now people who are not true car lovers, truck lovers love them and i understand why to a certain degree. It’s just the ones who think there buying one to save the planet is where it goes off the rails for me. If you are buying one for function than i get it, i do. There is a place for them to a certain extent. Big cities make sense for the most part for them, but it’s not a universal fit. Our government and power players of the world are currently trying to push most of us into the cities, we are easier to control that way. With an electric car, they can turn it off, some say well u can turn off any car these days. No u cannot, there are many older cars n trucks that will run regardless, u can make shine to run gas cars and u can feed a diesel darn near anything petroleum and it will run. Evs are a flip of the switch and ur not going anywhere. For gosh sakes a tesla will drive itself back to the dealer if they choose it to do so. Also, these AI self-driving cars? Don’t u think anyone with any skills as a hacker could hack one and do with-it what they please? Think about that? If it’s got a computer and the computer drives the car a hacker can hijack that car and do with-it what he or she pleases.
If you think BEVs have no soul, you aren’t a car enthusiast. Period. You are only pretending to be one on the internet, while throwing barbs at a different transportation method that scares you.