Waymo's attempts to operate at San Francisco's airport hit an abrupt wall — with SF now poised to leverage airport access to its airport.
Cruise, the robotaxi company that appears to have taken the tech mantra “move fast, break things” a bit too literally, is having a dire run of late. , following an early October incident in which a Cruise autonomous vehicle did not detect that it had stopped atop a pedestrian who’d been struck by a hit-and-run driver. It subsequently attempted to pull over, and dragged her 20 feet. in San Francisco and now it cannot.
Board President Aaron Peskin is planning to ramp up the sorts of actions he’s earlier referred to as “legislative guerilla warfare” — and a promised shot across Waymo’s bow. An early salvo appears to have been unleashed in September, when Waymo’s attempt to land at San Francisco International Airport skidded off the runway. ’s best old jokes notes that animals are our friends — but they won’t pick you up at the airport.
On Aug. 23, Abubakar Azam, the airport’s director of landside operations, wrote a short, upbeat note to Waymo officials: “We have decided to postpone the mapping permit until Waymo has completed mapping for at least the cities surrounding SFO and secured autonomous operations approval from the California Public Utilities Commission for San Mateo county.
Peskin said he’s still working out specific terms with the City Attorney and Municipal Transportation Agency — but would push for more information sharing, a cap on autonomous vehicles in the city or at least congested portions of the city and support for state-level rule-changes which would allow for things such as driverless vehicles to be cited or ticketed.
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