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▲ Six days after the California State Transportation Authority approved the 24-hour operation of driverless unmanned taxi (robo taxi) cruises on the 10th, as part of an experiment to evaluate the safety and efficiency of automated public transportation, driverless unmanned shuttle buses were launched. Stopping to see passengers at a stop on Treasure Island.
San Francisco Associated Press
Cruise, a driverless taxi (robo taxi) that started operating 24 hours a day in San Francisco, USA, decided to cut the number of vehicles in operation in half due to a series of accidents.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) announced on the 19th (local time) that the US automaker General Motors (GM)’s autonomous vehicle, the Cruise, will reduce the number of robotaxi vehicles in San Francisco by 50%. In a statement, the DMV said it was “investigating the recent accident with Cruise,” and “immediately requested a 50 percent reduction in active vehicles until the investigation is complete and the cruise takes appropriate corrective action to ensure safety.” He added that Cruise also agreed.
This is due to several accidents since the approval of 24-hour commercial operation on the 10th, such as a cruise robot taxi colliding with a fire engine at an intersection in the city on the 17th.
As a result, cruises will operate only 50 during the day and 150 at night from San Francisco. Initially, Cruise said it would operate 100 during the day and 300 at night.
On the 17th, at around 10:00 pm, a robotaxi cruise carrying passengers at an intersection in the Tenderloin area of downtown San Francisco saw a blue light and entered the intersection. One passenger was injured in the accident and taken to the hospital, and the cruise came to a halt after hitting the right side of the fire truck.
Cruise general manager Greg Dietrich explained in a blog the next day that the accident had several factors, such as an intersection building that was difficult to see around.
On the 11th, 10 cruise taxis stopped on a street on the beach, causing traffic congestion for more than 15 minutes. It is said that a large number of people using mobile phones at a nearby music festival caused a problem with the system that specifies the vehicle route. On the 15th, a cruise ship without passengers was spotted standing still around the construction site.
Senior Reporter Lim Byung-seon
2023-08-19 23:06:17
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