Cruise Autonomous Car Blocked Fire Truck Responding to Emergency
April 5, 2022
A fire truck in San Francisco responding to a fire was blocked from passing a doubled-parked garbage truck by a self-driving Cruise car on the opposing lane which stayed put and did not reverse to clear the lane.
- Alleged deployer
- cruise
- Alleged developer
- cruise
- Alleged harmed parties
- san-francisco-firefighters, san-francisco-fire-department
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/389
Data source
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