Driverless cars deal with more trust issues.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Matt Levin. Back in August, the autonomous vehicle industry was riding high.

Regulators in California had just allowed driverless taxis in San Francisco to compete 24-7

with Ubers and lifts, a major AV milestone. Fast forward three months and the California DMV has suspended

the Robotaxi company crews from operating anywhere in the state. Federal regulators have also opened a probe into multiple

incidents involving cruise cars, cruises owned by General Motors. Andrew

Hawkins is the Transportation Editor for The Verge and has reported on the long

awaited autonomous vehicle revolution for years now. He explains what went wrong

with crews starting with a grisly accident. There was a hit and run involving a pedestrian.

The hit and run vehicle driven by a human hit this pedestrian.

She was flung into the path of a cruise vehicle that was a driverless vehicle at the time

there was nobody in the car and the cruise vehicle inadvertently ran her over but then instead of

stopping where it was it proceeded to execute what was called a pullover maneuver.

It was trying to pull over to the side of the road.

The woman was trapped under the vehicle at the time and she was drug around 20 feet to the curb where she sustained further injuries and she's still in pretty bad shape in the hospital.

And then the way Cruz responded, according to the DMV, they sent video to regulators, but they left out about seven seconds of the video showing the cruise vehicle dragging the woman to the side of the street.

Cruz denies this, but it did factor into the DMV's decision to pull the permit.

In the piece that you wrote for The Verge last week, you said these robot taxis have serious trust issues.

Can you elaborate on what exactly you mean by that?

Yeah, so I think it has a lot to do with the way

that these companies are communicating

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