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I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

Mike, welcome back to the show. Thanks for being here.

Hey, thanks for having me. It's been a couple weeks. Nice to see you again.

Nice to see you, too. And here's a couple of stories that y'all might have missed on the internet this week.

So we've talked about the nightmare that is autonomous driverless cars being tested on public roads.

When I first heard about this, I was like, oh, there's no way that

they're just testing autonomous driverless cars on the street while regular people are just

walking around going about their business. But it turns out that was exactly what was going on.

Ordinary people like you and me are serving as unpaid crash test dummies for driverless

technology by companies like

crews on public roads. But that is maybe changing after a pretty bombshell situation over in San Francisco.

SFGate reports the California Department of Motor Vehicles has suspended Cruz's permits to deploy

driverless vehicles as commercial taxis in the state,

or run any tests on public streets without backup drivers behind the wheel.

So this suspension all stems from a pretty bad crash that happened in San Francisco on October 2nd

that left a pedestrian severely injured.

In that crash, an unrelated car struck a pedestrian,

knocking them into the path of a driverless cruise car. The autonomous vehicle

braked hard, but still collided with and ran over the pedestrian before coming to a

complete stop. Cruise representatives then met with officials from both the DMV and the

California Highway Patrol,

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