More than a half dozen Cruise robotaxis stopped operating and sat in a street in San Francisco late Tuesday night, blocking traffic for a couple of hours until employees arrived and manually moved the autonomous vehicles.

Photos and a description of the Cruise robotaxi blockade were shared to a Reddit post on a subreddit about happenings in the city.



The mishap comes less than a week after Cruise launched its first fully driverless, commercial robotaxi service in the city. Cruise's vehicles are initially operating between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on designated streets and without a human safety operator behind the wheel. The Reddit post subsequently made the rounds on Twitter.

"The first thing I say to my co-worker is that they're getting together to murder us," wrote the OP. "It was a pretty surreal event. Humans had to come and manually take the cars away. Cruise should get fined to shit for blocking the street off for so long. They even made it so the street sweeper couldn't hit an entire block."

Fines for blocking the street sweeper are around $76 per car in San Francisco. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA) did not respond to TechCrunch's requests for more information about how it handles such situations with autonomous vehicles and whether Cruise will receive any fines for blocking the intersection.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/30/cruise-robotaxis-blocked-traffic-for-hours-on-this-san-francisco-street/

SkyNet shaking out the kinks in it’s system.

Who would use that crap?

Johnny cab needs some work.

3 Laws Safe

People who don't want walk, and don't dig the whole tipping thing?

5 seconds.

any bets?

But who also trust H1-B programmers with their life?

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