Explore: See the 55 reports — so far — of robot cars interfering with SF fire dept.

On the eve of the vote to allow unfettered access to San Francisco for driverless car companies, the San Francisco Fire Department has generated some 55 “Unusual Occurrence” reports documenting autonomous vehicles meandering into fire and emergency scenes. The day with the most reports — four on March 21 — was also the day a record number of trees fell in San Francisco during vicious windstorms. Data from the San Francisco Fire Department. A Waymo car traveling the opposite direction turned directly in front of it onto Newhall and then abruptly stopped, blocking the fire rig. “In the name of safety … a cone was placed on the hood of the Cruise vehicle,” reads the report.