Cruise AV
A small group of Cruise self-driving taxis operating in San Francisco suddenly stopped en masse Tuesday night, blocking traffic in the city’s Fillmore district for more than two hours until Cruise employees arrived at the scene to remove them. In a statement, Cruise apologized for the accident, but did not provide a reason for the incident, only confirming that the current situation was ruled out and that no passengers were affected.
Cruise is a service owned by General Motors (GM) and is the first licensed vehicle in the United States. Self-driving taxi service. Cruise began offering free rides to San Francisco residents in February this year, and it just launched on June 24 last week to start charging. The service features safe driving without humans, but is limited to only a few streets and can only carry passengers at night.
Overall, Cruise has not had any major problems since February. At most, in April, a Cruise was stopped by the police for not driving its headlights (thenPolice don’t know what to do when they find out they’re not driving), this collective shutdown is the first.Most of the passenger reviews also seem to be good, except that Cruise andWaymo joined later As there are more and more on the street, the interaction with other vehicles, pedestrians, and even the police will also increase, and then there will be more and more accidents of all kinds.
