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general motorsCruise, its self-driving car division, has confirmed that some of the company’s vehicles stalled on San Francisco streets after a storm that knocked down trees on San Francisco’s streets on Tuesday night.
John Philip Bettencourt, an eyewitness to the failed cruise robo-taxis, shared a photo of the stopped vehicle on Twitter.
He told CNBC that around 1:45 p.m. on March 22, a large tree on the corner of Jones and Clay streets fell on the tracks that power the city’s buses and “pulled the bus down.” rice field. Later, another tree on Polk Street and Clay Street fell into the street. In response, the San Francisco Fire Department blocked off the clay between Polk and Jones streets with caution tape, he said.
By 9:45 p.m., Bettencourt saw and photographed two self-driving cruise cars that had stopped in the face of these unusual obstacles. He said the self-driving cruise car didn’t seem to properly detect and avoid caution tapes and bus wires, instead getting “entangled in them.”
Betencourt said in a message on CNBC: (Obviously for cars other than Robocars) I think this technology is very interesting.
After Bettancourt shared the photo on Twitter, Cruise’s official account replied: A team has been dispatched to remove the vehicle. ”
CNBC reached out to Cruise to find out how many robo-taxis malfunctioned during or after Tuesday’s storm in San Francisco, whether there were injuries or property damage as a result, and how quickly stalled vehicles were removed. I asked for details, such as whether it was possible. manually from the driveway.
Earlier this week, Cruise submitted an application to the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test its robo-taxis statewide, not just in San Francisco, where it has been testing for over two years.
A spokesperson for California’s DMV told CNBC: Including the geographic area and the specific conditions under which the vehicle will operate autonomously. Cruise has permission to test and deploy autonomous vehicles in San Francisco day and night, except during heavy rain.
Cruise is one of only three companies licensed to operate self-driving vehicles commercially on the streets of San Francisco. alphabetWaymo, which owns, and Nuro, which is a startup.
Some are even allowed in California to test self-driving cars without a human driver. AmazonIt is owned by Zoox and Chinese startup WeRide. DMV website.
In messages to social media and CNBC, Bettencourt emphasized that he wasn’t trying to insult Cruise or be overly critical of Cruise. I saw something crazy, so I took a photo of their car that stopped on the road in Nob Hill and shared it.