Self-driving cars block roads in San Francisco

As many as ten Cruise driverless cars stopped working in the busy North Beach neighbourhood on Friday nightA busy bar and restaurant area in San Francisco was brought to a standstill by malfunctioning self-driving taxis only a day after state regulators had approved their expanded use in the city. Cruise, owned by General Motors, and Waymo, which began with a project at Google, can now charge passengers for rides in San Francisco around the clock. SponsoredLocal officials had opposed the expansion of the companies’ autonomous vehicles on safety grounds, pointing to a series of incidents in which they had behaved erratically. The so-called robotaxis blocked traffic, including emergency vehicles, in the city, leading to lengthy queues. As many as ten Cruise driverless cars stopped working in the busy North Beach neighbourhood on Friday night, and witnesses said there was a wait of