Have autonomous drive cars reachedAI sensory faculty ? Are the robotaxis planning a robo - takeover ? It seemed like they might be when they blocked traffic for minute Tuesday night in San Francisco . Then , when you looked a minute closer , you could see that that the eight self - driving Cruise vehicles had navigated to the same street corner corner by fault , stopping in a confused ruck like dithering cows .
The electronic jamming was only resolved when Cruise employees arrived hours later to manually move the allegedly self-reliant vehicles out of the way , agree toa report fromTechCrunch .
Photos twinge out from the incident seemed to point that the cars were specifically lodge at the turning point of Gough and Fulton streets . The painting show at least eight motorcar stopped across two lane of the road .
It’s the future, and the cars are driving us now. Are humans ready for Cruise control?Photo:Tada Images(Shutterstock)
Some@Cruiserobotaxis come out to be stick in SF last dark at the street corner of Gough St. and Fulton St.
Human ops apparently had to deliver them . Still some rick to iron out.pic.twitter.com/eXDocjVfHU
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“ We had an issue earlier this hebdomad that have some of our vehicles to cluster together . While it was resolved and no rider were impacted , we apologize to anyone who was bother , ” Cruise spokesperson Drew Pusateri , write to Gizmodo in an electronic mail . Pusateri declined to provide any further item on what cause the cars to “ bunch up . ”
The company sound out the cause of the jam had been found and fixed , though bill sticker in aReddit threadhad their own ideas about the car ’ motives , from unionise to plotting humanity ’s ruination . The original placard in the thread described the Cruise car slew - up as “ phantasmagoric , ” and noted that the cars block a street carpet sweeper from accessing the engine block — a local intrusion normally punishable with a$76 fineper auto .
The California Public Utilities Commission authorized Cruiseto runa 30 - car driverless vehicle fleet in San Francisco before this month . One of the judicial admission , however , was that the robotaxis can only operate between the time of day of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. when route are less crowded . Cruise is the first self - drive car society to get sanction to control its vehicles in the city without a human back - up equipment driver ( unlike Alphabet - ownedcompetitor Waymo ) .
approving apart though , Cruise cars have n’t on the dot inspired confidence in the yesteryear . In April , a driverless Cruise taxi waspulled over by policefor nighttime driving with no headlight , and then speed away from the cops .
Other autonomous vehicle fellowship have also receive themselves present likewise odd andbad car behaviors . Waymo ’s SF fleet keep routingdown a drained - end streetlast year . Human equipment driver are n’t perfect , but clearly neither is a organization dependent on masses to rescue it .
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