GM’s Cruise Loses Its License in San Francisco after a car wreck

The State of California Enforcing Suspensions to Self-Driving Cars Due to Pedestrian Safety Concerns

Federal regulators are also looking at the safety of driverless cars. Last week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration started an investigation into Cruise due to pedestrian safety concerns.

San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton said at the protest that we need people behind the wheel with a pulse and a brain that knows how to maneuver in sticky situations. “These Cruise vehicles are dangerous on our streets. They don’t know what to do when they see tragedy, danger, or obstacles in their way.

Despite those incidents, regulators voted in August to allow self-driving car companies to expand their operations. The city of San Francisco filed a motion with the state to stop that expansion.

Cruise has been ordered to stop the operations of their self- driving cars in California. The Department of Motor Vehicle said on Tuesday that it was suspending all use of their vehicles due to safety issues.

The department of motor vehicles can suspend or revoked permits if there is an unreasonable risk to public safety. “There is no set time for a suspension.”

An evasive self-driving vehicle accidently struck a female driver with an external body: Cruise, a spokesperson, and the city of San Francisco

“Our teams are currently doing an analysis to identify potential enhancements to the AV’s response to this kind of extremely rare event,” said Navideh Forghani, a Cruise spokesperson.

Cruise provided additional details of the October 2 collision in a blog post published today. According to the company, which has 40 cameras and sensors mounted on each of its vehicles, its self-driving vehicle quickly swerved and braked in an attempt to avoid a collision with the woman, but still made impact. The vehicle then stopped but, according to Cruise, “attempted to pull over,” dragging the woman an additional 20 feet. Cruise says this sort of evasive maneuver was built into the vehicle’s software to promote safety, and is required by both California and federal regulators.

The vehicle stopped a second time. The San Francisco Fire Department said the victim was “extricated from beneath the vehicle using rescue tools”, according to NBC Bay Area. The department said she was in the hospital with very serious injuries. The human driver of the car that hit the woman has not been caught.