More details are emerging following a Cruise system failure that saw an intersection in San Francisco blocked by just over a dozen robot cabs for at l

First Details on Paralyzed Robotaxi Fleet in San Francisco

submited by

Style Pass

2022-07-01 19:30:03

More details are emerging following a Cruise system failure that saw an intersection in San Francisco blocked by just over a dozen robot cabs for at least two hours before Cruise employees were then able to drive them away manually or remotely.

We had an issue earlier this week that caused some of our vehicles to cluster together. While it was resolved and no passengers were impacted, we apologize to anyone who was inconvenienced.

However, in further reports, it is clear that this is not the first time it has happened, nor was such behavior by the vehicles unpredictable. A Twitter user shared videos and pictures of an incident about a week earlier, showing three to four Cruise vehicles in such a paralyzed situation:

To add to a night of technical oddities there are three Cruise vehicles, all (literally) driverless, stuck at and partially blocking the corner of Geary and Mason 😅 pic.twitter.com/ypBze8nrnW

As can be seen, the vehicles are quite scattered on the road, blocking one direction of travel. Pictures from inside the vehicles show on the display the sentences: