A Cruise self-driving cab impacted a fire engine late Thursday in San Francisco, injuring the car’s passenger.
The self-driving firm, a division of General Motors Co., documented the incident in a sequence of online posts Friday.
“One of our autos entered the crossing on a green signal and was hit by an urgent vehicle that seemed to be en route to an emergency scene,” the firm posted on Y, the network previously known as Twitter. The accident happened shortly past 10 p.m. in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, Cruise revealed.
“Our vehicle carried one traveler who was cared for on-site and transported via ambulance for what we believe are minor injuries,” the firm said.
The event poses inquiries about why the auto didn’t identify the need to halt for an urgent vehicle and why it didn’t observe through traffic while traversing an intersection.
A video from San Francisco’s local ABC network presented the emergency vehicle was a fire engine. The San Francisco Fire Department didn’t promptly answer a request for commentary Friday.
In the preceding week, California’s Public Utilities Commission voted 3 to 1 to grant Cruise and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo authorization to broaden the regions of the city where they can operate self-driving vehicles without a security operator and impose a fee on passengers.
San Francisco’s municipality, helmed by City Advocate David Chiu, urged state overseers on Wednesday to halt their resolution to permit Cruise and Waymo’s expansion.
“San Francisco will encounter significant damage if Cruise is granted expansion in the City without constraints on geographic zone, service hours, and fleet magnitude,” the city stated in its 84-page appeal. “As the Commission has acknowledged, the execution of Cruise’s autonomous autos presently in limited deployment and testing has impeded first responder operations, public transit, street laborers, and the general traffic flow.”
Newer social media posts have also depicted some peculiar actions from Cruise’s autonomous cars. A video shared on Monday demonstrated a vehicle advancing through a pedestrian crossing while kids crossed, and another exhibited the Cruise auto pausing in an intersection with cars behind it.
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