A stalled Cruise robotaxi blocked a San Francisco ambulance from getting a pedestrian hit by a vehicle to the hospital in an Aug. 14 incident, according to first responder accounts. The patient later died of their injuries.
“The patient was packaged for transport with life-threatening injuries, but we were unable to leave the scene initially due to the Cruise vehicles not moving,” the San Francisco Fire Department report, first reported by Forbes, reads. “The fact that Cruise autonomous vehicles continue to block ingress and egress to critical 911 calls is unacceptable.”
Yes and no. It will definitely fix some issues and create new ones. Would likely free up some space and be better overall for most.
Less cars is generally better. Plus I don’t like driving. I get highly stressed and it ruins my day. Yet when someone else drives me I’m all good. So for me it’s a win.
What’s the “no” part of this? You don’t seem to disagree with anything I said at all.
Good point.
I’m guessing there would be a whole host of new issues. Similar to this one. Broken down vehicles blocking access to areas. Parking in weird places.
Job loss from gig economy with Uber and such. Potentially an increase in cars if companies could have fleets of cars. An absolute shit tonne of bandwidth being required for all these cars. Software updates bricking cars. Some people enjoy driving so negative for them maybe. I’m sure there are plenty others. Won’t know issues until roll out really happens. Pros and cons to most things unfortunately.