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5641 A video not too long 5641 ago posted on-line reveals what 5641 occurs when police attempt to 5641 apprehend an autonomous car – 5641 solely to search out no 5641 person inside.
5641 Police in San Francisco stopped 5641 a car operated by Cruise, 5641 an autonomous automobile firm backed 5641 by Common Motors, in 5641 a video posted on 5641 1 April 5641 . Officers approached the automobile, 5641 which had been driving with 5641 out headlights, solely to search 5641 out it was empty.
5641 “Ain’t no person in it 5641 – that is loopy,” a 5641 bystander could be heard saying 5641 within the video. The automobile 5641 then speeds away to the 5641 opposite facet of the intersection, 5641 leaving the police behind.
5641 The video, which has since 5641 circulated broadly on social media, 5641 prompted inevitable jokes. “Welcome to 5641 the longer term,” quipped one 5641 Twitter consumer.
5641 Cruise is working to deploy 5641 its autonomous driving know-how for 5641 ride-hailing functions, transporting riders across 5641 the metropolis with out a 5641 driver. It has been testing 5641 its autos with a backup 5641 driver within the entrance seat 5641 since 2015, nevertheless it began 5641 permitting customers to hail driverless 5641 vehicles in 5641 San Francisco 5641 in November 2021.
5641 The corporate mentioned in a 5641 tweet that the car had 5641 behaved as anticipated by shifting 5641 to a safer location on 5641 the opposite facet of the 5641 intersection the place police have 5641 been in a position to 5641 deal with their considerations.
5641 “Our AV yielded to the 5641 police car, then pulled over 5641 to the closest secure location, 5641 as supposed. An officer contacted 5641 Cruise personnel and no quotation 5641 was issued,” Cruise 5641 mentioned 5641 on its company Twitter 5641 account.
5641 A Cruise spokeswoman, Tiffany Testo, 5641 advised the Guardian that the 5641 car “didn’t have its headlights 5641 on due to a human 5641 error, which was the explanation 5641 the SFPD approached it, and 5641 now we have mounted the 5641 problem that led to this”. 5641 She added that the corporate 5641 supplied a telephone quantity for 5641 police to name with questions 5641 any time a car is 5641 pulled over. The SFPD didn’t 5641 instantly reply to request for 5641 remark concerning the incident or 5641 about its insurance policies for 5641 driverless autos.
5641 The viral video underscores the 5641 bumps within the street as 5641 corporations race to place absolutely 5641 autonomous autos on streets.
5641 The Cruise video comes simply 5641 weeks after Waymo, one other 5641 autonomous automobile firm, 5641 introduced 5641 it will deploy driverless 5641 autos in San Francisco. Waymo 5641 has been engaged on autonomous 5641 driving know-how for greater than 5641 a decade and working absolutely 5641 driverless rides in Arizona for 5641 greater than a 12 months.
5641 However driverless automobile glitches have 5641 made headlines up to now, 5641 together with a Waymo car 5641 that grew to become 5641 caught at an intersection 5641 and required rescue.
5641 Waymo mentioned in March it 5641 will 5641 permit passengers in its driverless 5641 vehicles 5641 on a trial foundation. 5641 To partake, riders should 5641 apply for a waitlist and 5641 signal non-disclosure agreements to get 5641 early entry.
5641 Nuro, one other autonomous automobile 5641 firm, additionally has a allow 5641 for driverless autos in San 5641 Francisco, however is 5641 utilizing 5641 it for self-driving supply 5641 providers quite than passenger rides. 5641 It’s already making driverless deliveries 5641 in Mountain View, California.
5641 Different driverless automobile companies are 5641 engaged on their very own 5641 know-how, together with Elon Musk’s 5641 digital automobile firm Tesla and 5641 Aurora Innovation, an organization primarily 5641 based in Pittsburgh.
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