Willie Brown, the former San Francisco mayor who appeared in a Cruise ad, declined to answer questions about Cruise's suspension.
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown is known for sounding off on political flashpoints and openly talking about, well, anything. Not this time, though. Brown vociferously defended driverless cars just a few months ago, and once appeared in an ad for Cruise, but he doesn’t want to weigh in on the company suspending their nationwide fleet this week amid widespread scrutiny.
. In August, Brown took issue with local transit officials, who were calling for more data and a slower rollout by driverless car companies. “Every day in the city residents are using autonomous vehicles to get to work, get home from the bar, get a meal delivered from the food bank — and doing it safely,” Brown wrote in a statement, as POLITICO’s Lara Korte first reported on social media.
found at the time that Brown had been a paid adviser for Cruise since 2020; the resolution went through, and the company got what it wanted — more cars in the streets and more hours of paid ride-hailing. This week, the California Department of Motor Vehicles put Cruise’s operations to a stop.
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