While all companies continue to work and test non-stop to enable the future of fully autonomous vehicles, an interesting image was reflected on social media on the streets of the USA today. A vehicle of the company called Cruise, which is a driverless taxi driver in San Francisco, stopped in accordance with the rules by the police teams for an unknown reason.
He was naturally surprised by the police teams who did not see any driver in the vehicle in the incident that took place last week. While the surrounding citizens continued to laugh at the police, the autonomous vehicle also made an interesting move. The vehicle suddenly began to move away from the police teams. But the reason for this was not ‘running away from the police’ as neither the people around nor the people thought.
Those moments when the police teams stopped the autonomous vehicle and got shocked:
He approached his autonomous vehicle again and started to do some operations. Although the video did not show how the incident ended, it seemed that the teams were talking to someone on the phone. It was also shared by Cruise why the vehicle was away from the police in the first place and who the police might be talking to.
Cruise, in the statement he shared after the video that made an impact on social media, announced that his vehicles surrendered to the police vehicle at first, and then moved to stop in the safest place possible. In the continuation of his statement, Cruise stated that he works closely with the San Francisco Police Department and that they have a phone number in their vehicles for the police to reach them in such cases.
By the way, yes, the streets of San Francisco have been home to Cruise’s driverless fully autonomous taxis for about 3 months.
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