Connected Car
The city of San Francisco wants to pause the rollout of self-driving taxis after state regulators approved applications from Cruise and Waymo to extend their operations last week. Now San Francisco city attorney David Chiu has filed motions with CPUC – one relating to Cruise and one to Waymo – requesting that authorization for the rollout is put on hold. “San Francisco will suffer serious harms from this unfettered expansion, which outweigh whatever impacts AV companies may experience from a minimal pause in commercial deployment. The city is simply requesting the CPUC preserve the status quo while it seeks rehearing.”The filings detail numerous incident reports and are backed by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, San Francisco County Transportation Authority and San Francisco Planning. The city’s fire department has logged more than 50 instances of self-driving taxis interfering with emergency vehicles.