Cruise AV Collides With Semi Truck On San Francisco Streets
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A fully autonomous Cruise Chevy Bolt EV was involved in a collision with a semi truck earlier this week on the streets of San Francisco. No injuries were reported, and damage was relatively minor. The accident arrives on the heels of the expansion of Cruise’s operations to seven major cities in the U.S.
The collision was captured in a recent social post, which shows Cruise Chevy Bolt EV wedged underneath the box trailer of a semi. The semi is seen blocking multiple lanes, and in a video, backs up away from the autonomous vehicle. The Chevy Bolt EV’s hazard lights are activated.
So I just witnessed my first #driverless #carcrash in #sf by a @Cruise crashing into a #semi in golden gate park pic.twitter.com/LFeBI6mwVM
— Alf Santos (@alfsan) August 7, 2023
Follow-up photos from the scene reveal that the Cruise vehicle’s sideview mirror was broken in the accident.
In response to the social media post, Cruise stated that the AV had stopped while the semi driver attempted a wide turn, which resulted in the collision.
Cruise AVs have been involved in several high-publicity incidents in the past, providing fodder for critics who argue the technology is not ready for public roads. A few examples includes reports that Cruise AVs have blocked emergency vehicles, blocked traffic, and have been involved in other collisions.
Cruise recently expanded its operations beyond its home city of San Francisco to include seven major U.S. cities total, including Miami, Phoenix, Austin, Dallas, Houston, and Nashville. The technology company is currently operating 400 driverless vehicles, and recently celebrated 3 million driverless miles across its fleet.
Back in February of 2022, Cruise filed a petition with the NHTSA for the go-ahead to deploy upwards of 2,500 Cruise Origin AVs annually. Unlike the Cruise Chevy Bolt EVs currently in service, Cruise Origin does not include any human-pilot controls or equipment, which means no steering wheel, no pedals, no mirrors, etc. The NHTSA will decide if vehicles designed to be driven by computers should be required to have human-piloted controls.
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How is this a good idea?
That’s what I mean. Why is this a good idea? How does this type of vehicle help the consumers?
Hard to judge without seeing it unfold. Did the semi make the wide left turn without seeing the cruise and/or not provide enough space for the AV to slow down in time?
exactly, the video is useless.
Not sure why this makes the news in a negative way for Cruise. Sounds like truck hit them not the other way around,
A human driver in the very least would have been able to blast the horn to get the truckers attention or try and back up to make more room (if there was nobody behind him)
Except that human semi driver was the one in the far right lane that decided they had to turn left in front of traffic.
What is it about autonomous and running under trucks? Tesla is getting probed in PA for another person who got sliced.
Autobots Attack!
Caca happens?
What you guys are forgetting is that the cruise does not know that trucks make a wide turns to compensate for the trailer where were a human driver sees a signal light and knows the truck is about to make a wide turn and we stop almost 100% of the time because the truck has the right of way the autonomous driven vehicle will not know that at all
Truck driver’s fault. Should have waited until the turn could have been completed safely.
Again, these menaces should be outlawed, they are dangerous. Even if the semi truck was wrong, a human could have taken evasive actions, a robot can only stop We don’t know for sure that the dumb car ever stopped for the turning truck, it may have just driven under it.
These crashes won’t occur once the trucks are autonomous, too.
No, the vehicles will just stop on the middle of the street blocking traffic.
: and how many crashes happen every single day on city streets with human drivers? Yet those crashes and fender benders don’t make the news.
gm promised these drones would not crash, injure, or impede traffic, and be perfect compared to a human driver.
I just don’t see the need for the driverless cars, why?
What is the purpose of an AV ? All it does is crash !!!!
Just another money grab.
18 days until August 29, when Cruise becomes self-aware….
Whatever the hell rate means…
GM, please give up on self-driving and make EVs LESS expensive!!!
I like that idea Jeff. Yes give up on self-driving vehicles (Robotics) and concentrate on less expensive EVs. Perfect Jeff. Bring the hybrids back General Motors!
is no one concerned that a vehicle driven by a human backed over a man and killed him?
I definitely don’t like the AVs nor the EVs. The gas powered vehicles work for me.