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podcasts. The road to a future of driverless cars has been getting kind of bumpy.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.

Autonomous vehicles are here and they're causing some problems. Reports over the past year show

General Motors Cruise Vehicles or Alphabet's Waymo Cars have been occasionally getting glitchy

in cities like San Francisco and Phoenix, shutting down in the middle of traffic, nearly colliding

with a light rail train. Andrew Hawkins is the transit editor for The Verge and says driverless

cars are in a confusing moment. Most of the time, they work remarkably well until they don't.

It's the latest for an industry beset by both technological and financial challenges.

I think we've seen over the last year, so mass layoffs hit a lot of the companies that are working

on autonomous vehicle projects. In addition to that, there have been a lot of negative headlines

about the rollout of autonomous vehicles, especially in cities like San Francisco, where you see

companies like Cruise and Waymo really ramping up their Robotaxi services and being met with a lot

of outright hostility from the people who live in the cities. And that's because the vehicles are

not acting as perfectly, I think, as they were originally portrayed. They are blocking traffic.

They are rear-ending city buses. They are getting confused. It just seems like we're in this

sort of strange, liminal period right now in which the autonomous vehicles are coming out.

They exist. They're real despite some predictions that they are actually not going to make their way

onto our public roads. They are actually on public roads and they are making money for some of

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