Passengers were injured when a Cruise robotaxi collided with a fire truck in San Francisco on Thursday night.
The self-driving company, a subsidiary of General Motors Co., reported the accident in a string of incidents. social media post Friday.
“One of our cars entered an intersection on a green light and was struck by an emergency vehicle that appeared to be on its way to the emergency scene,” the company posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Cruise said, The accident happened just after 10 p.m. in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.
“Our vehicle was carrying a passenger who was treated at the scene and transported by ambulance with injuries we do not believe are serious,” the company said.
The incident raised questions about why the vehicle didn’t know to stop and wait for emergency vehicles, and why it didn’t notice traffic as it crossed the intersection.
Video from the local ABC network in San Francisco show emergency vehicles It’s a fire truck. The San Francisco Fire Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
One of our cars entered the intersection on a green light and was hit by an emergency vehicle that appeared to be on its way to the emergency scene. (2/5)
– Cruise (@Cruise) August 18, 2023
Last week, the California Public Utilities Commission voted 3-1 to allow Cruise and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo to expand areas of the city where self-driving cars can operate without a safety driver, and to charge riders a fee.
The city of San Francisco, led by City Attorney David Chiu, on Wednesday asked state regulators to suspend their decision to approve Cruise and Waymo’s expansion.
“San Francisco would be severely harmed if cruise lines were allowed to expand in the city, regardless of geographic area, hours of service, or fleet size,” the city wrote in its statement. 84 pages of motion. “As the Commission has acknowledged, the performance of Cruise’s driverless self-driving vehicles, currently in limited deployment and testing, has interfered with the operations of first responders, public transit, street construction workers, and the flow of traffic.”
Recent social media posts have also shown some strange behavior by Cruise’s self-driving car.A video released on Monday shows a car drive across the crosswalk Another shows off cruiser even as kids cross the road stop at the intersection There are cars behind.
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