Self-Driving Cars Crash Into Reality
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In August, California regulators voted to allow self-driving car companies like Cruise and Waymo to expand their operations and start offering robotaxi services. 2 months later, after a litany of mistakes, Cruise is pulling all of its driverless cars off the road.
Is this an existential threat to the entire AV industry?
Guest: David Zipper, visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School
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| 0:35.0 | It is cold season. |
| 0:36.0 | Please bear with me. |
| 0:42.0 | Get updated with a developing story out of San Francisco this morning. |
| 0:46.0 | A hit and run driver struck a woman on Market Street and then a driver loose car ran over her. |
| 0:51.0 | The crash took place on October 2nd in downtown San Francisco. |
| 0:56.0 | After the hit and run driver left, the woman was somehow pinned underneath a crew's autonomous vehicle. |
| 1:03.0 | You can hear the horror in the voice of this paratransit driver, Lee Goins, when he describes finding her. |
| 1:10.0 | I stood down, you know, and I started asking, finding out whether or not the person, hello, hello. |
| 1:15.0 | You okay, okay? |
| 1:16.0 | Then the person stopped monitoring. |
| 1:17.0 | As you see, there's still blood here. |
| 1:18.0 | The person stopped monitoring and then I raised up and I started yelling. |
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