Autonomous Vehicle News
As many as a dozen stalled Cruise autonomous vehicles blocked streets in San Francisco's North Beach and near this weekend's Outside Lands music festival, snarling traffic and frustrating riders barely a day after state regulators voted to allow the unlimited expansion of robotaxi companies. Why do state commissioners think it’s OK to put people in danger + create traffic chaos on our neighborhoods streets? pic.twitter.com/YCKrI09nhw — Aaron Peskin (@AaronPeskin) August 12, 2023And no plan for the extra Outside Lands days! — Aaron Peskin (@AaronPeskin) August 13, 2023On Saturday morning, a social media poster with the handle FriscoLive415 described it as a "complete meltdown." Cruise responded with an apology, saying that a "large festival posed wireless bandwidth constraints causing delayed connectivity to our vehicles.