Autonomous Vehicle News
On Friday, the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco was briefly clogged with traffic after autonomous taxis froze at a busy intersection. San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin cautioned that "these things are not ready for prime time," when speaking to NBC Bay Area. Though the traffic jam cleared after about 20 minutes, this isn't the first time robotaxis have caused confusion in situations that human drivers would have been able to figure out in seconds. In April, a Cruise robotaxi collided with a city bus, and another was unable to follow a police officer's instructions to pull over. A similar Cruise traffic jam of eight vehicles blocked city streets for hours last summer, but the cause was never explained.