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Flock of GM Cruise Self-Driving Cars Just Plain Stop Working, Block Gough Street ‘For a Couple of Hours’
SFist ^ | 1 JULY 2022 / | JOE KUKURA

Posted on 07/01/2022 5:38:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin

GM Cruise self-driving taxis started giving free rides in February, but these were never intended to stay free, that was just a pilot program working at limited times in limited areas, ostensibly to work out the kinks.

But the kinks are clearly not worked out. On the sixth day that these robotaxis were taking fares (actually sixth night, they only run between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.), TechCrunch reports that "more than a half dozen” of them just stopped working and blocked the street “ for a couple of hours.” TechCrunch adds that GM “employees arrived and manually moved the autonomous vehicles.”

The incident was originally described in a Reddit post, but has since been confirmed by General Motors. The Reddit post, seen above, is entitled “Bunch of Cruise cars stuck on Gough by Robin,” with Robin being a reference to the omakase sushi place in front of which this bizarre incident occurred.

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

It’s the whole “cluster together” thing that makes this eerie, and certainly problematic. Like they actually ganged up and then stopped, and GM’s response kind of minimizes the problem here. That is a legitimate blocking of traffic, which could have caused some real emergencies.

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KEYWORDS: driverlesstaxis; gm; sanfrancisco
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To: BenLurkin; cockroach_magoo; skr; Steely Tom

” . . .Like they actually ganged up and then stopped,

and GM’s response kind of minimizes the problem here.

That is a legitimate blocking of traffic, which could have caused some real emergencies. . .” . .

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“like they actually ganged up and then stopped”

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Sounds like a test run.

If the test was for, say, preventing escape by vehicle of humans in a city,

- why then -

It looks like the test run was a success.


21 posted on 07/01/2022 7:41:02 PM PDT by Norski (Revelation 22:20)
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To: BenLurkin
"Like they actually ganged up and then stopped"

They're union cars.

22 posted on 07/01/2022 7:43:45 PM PDT by blam
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To: BenLurkin

They have already learned the blm protest tactics.

Ai is becoming dangerous


23 posted on 07/01/2022 8:41:52 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: BenLurkin

Remember the reporter who’s car was hacked?


24 posted on 07/01/2022 9:46:08 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: C210N

A crash of Taxis
A down of Ubers
A wreck of Primes
A discharge of Teslas


25 posted on 07/01/2022 9:51:11 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: BenLurkin
Johnny Cabs Unite!! d;^)
26 posted on 07/02/2022 5:18:34 AM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: CopperTop

RIP Michael Ironside.


27 posted on 07/02/2022 8:03:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

I remember reading science fiction stories in which people would get into these self-driving cars (usually flying cars in the stories) and if they were wanted by the authorities, the doors would lock and they would be transported to the nearest police station.


28 posted on 07/02/2022 8:12:04 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,411,450 active users on Truth Social)
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To: BenLurkin
"..RIP Michael Ironside.."

He made a great "bad guy".. d:^)

29 posted on 07/02/2022 2:04:15 PM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: BenLurkin

GM should resurrect the name “Nova” for these vehicles. “Nova,” of course, means “no go” in Spanish.


30 posted on 07/02/2022 2:22:09 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (We are living in 1984. We have always been living in 1984.)
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To: BenLurkin
Speaking of Government Motors...

GM offers rebate on Cadillac Lyriq if drivers sign NDA, agree to be tracked

Whoakaaaaay...

31 posted on 07/29/2022 9:50:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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