Next Friday, the CPUC will consider approving Waymo and Cruise’s requests to charge fares for their robo-taxi services in San Francisco.
It was clear and dry in San Francisco’s Sunset district in the dark early-morning hours of April 1. The sun had set many hours before, and 19th Avenue was illuminated only by street lights and the flashes of car headlights.
Though the Waymo vehicle didn’t violate any rules of the road, such incidents raise questions about the readiness of autonomous vehicles as companies such as Waymo and Cruise race to charge fares for their robo-taxi services. During a seven-month period last year, 92 emergency 911 calls were made in San Francisco to report dangerous stops by Waymo and Cruise automated vehicles, according to one of The City’s protest letters.
Philip Koopman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a self-driving car safety expert, says this is a big problem. Mysterious blue laser that lit up Grace Cathedral is coming back After a test run with confusingly coincidental origins, a massive blue laser will once again shine in Nob Hill this month
But it seems some cars in the Waymo fleet are more problematic than others. The Jaguar involved in the crash in the Sunset district last year logged 15 crashes in a two-year period starting in July 2021 — more than any other car in the company’s fleet, although authorities acknowledge that in each collision, the other driver might have been at fault.That’s something that driverless cars have not yet mastered — but humans haven’t quite mastered it either.
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