Driverless taxis in San Francisco cause traffic jams, chaos
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- A fully driverless taxi service called Cruise agreed to cut its fleet in half while officials investigate several crashes and strange behavior from the cars. The move comes a few weeks after regulators gave two companies the green light to run the robo taxis. NBC News’ Dave Ingram reports.
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That was....not the closing statement I thought that story would end on 😂
That’s awesome. Kind of came out of the clue (no pun intended). Thinking it as like as Easter egg for those who stuck out the video until the end). 😂
Superb...
That man has to use his Viagra prescription lol
🤣🤣
i mean its painfully obvious
No one got arrested let alone a ticket for blocking a fire truck responding to a call. Perfect.
This makes me wonder what happens if an alien did the same lol
I think we can all agree that the problem was that the firefighters werent ai
Yeah, they were stuck in traffic. LOL!!! Pay attention dude or get your little sister to explain things to you.
I like how every time it gets a parking ticket it giggles like a barbie doll.
;-)@@joanfrellburg4901
That last guys comment was the most truthful statement I've heard on any news in a long time 😂😂
That story had a happy ending.
I wonder who cleans it up, does Rosie come out with her dust pan?
Best comment of the day winner 🏆
😂😂😂
My computer completely fails at the most basic tasks on a daily basis. To assume they’re ready to drive themselves is absolute insanity.
Garbage in: garbage out. Look to yourself, not a machine.
The same can be said with human driver, I am no fan of self driving vehicle but hey of cause it's not ready yet but it's working in progress, any new problem is new data to learn from. And 20-30 years more things will more different
Wait until all those shoplifters find out how much each one of those lidar sensors are worth...
haha then catalytic converters may become obsolete and passe for them - God willing!
Which politician got paid off to allow these on the road? 😂
There’s probably more then one of them considering there needs to be multiple votes to pass. Then again, all politicians are corrupt jizzstains.
Same ones that got paid off with Covid vax and decided not to follow their own mandates
Nobody needs this but their shareholders
You hit on the screws. Easy money.
What would happen to riders when thugs block the driverless taxis or run it off the road and rob the passengers .
Just how are these vehicles programmed to handle such situations ?
Cruise caused every single incident mentioned in the video. Should the title actually be: Cruise is not ready?
It will never be ready. Driverless has always been a scam and a science fiction
Do you have any idea how much money GM spends on NB C? They could run over a crosswalk full of nuns holding orphans and all you would get is fake news
100 vehicles during the day and 300 at night. Ya, they been ready. The already covered over 3 million miles in San Francisco in just a couple months.
Yeah, Waymo is vastly better from an error perspective from my little sample size. Really great to ride in as well!
Waymo and Cruise are garbage. They are map based systems. Tesla reacts to real time road situations.
Id be curious if there were any fatalities in the fire that the firetruck was prevented from making it to? That would technically ruin theyre "3 million unharmed miles driven" statistic. How mad would you be if YOUR house burnt down because a self driving taxi hit the firetruck that was on its way to save your home and family 🤣
Speaking technically, it wouldn't ruin it. It has to be a direct accident w a fatslity w the driverless vehicle. But yeah they need to clean these robot cars up!
What about if a human fire truck driver crashed the truck? That's ok I suppose.
@@Fomitesbetter
are you kidding im sure percent of fire calls that involve fatality is far less than 1 percent
HELLO!!!!!!!
One minute you think its cute seeing a self driving car and you pep in and grandpa and grandma just givin er in the back lol.
@angelofdarkness4479 right lol it threw me off at the end there.
We don't need robo taxis or personal vehicles in cities. We need good public transit, so roads aren't blocked and emergency vehicles, public service vehicles, and commercial trucks can get through.
Sadly that probably won’t happen. Even if the public transit is good and it’s set good they probably won’t have the drivers for it. Because for some reason we have decided to pay bus drivers and all jobs we need to live pay a wage that isn’t live able for them.
@@chrisfs1238 where I am bus drivers are paid fairly well. Increasing ridership would only stand to improve their wages.
@@yaash4123 I do agree with that, but I also do think people in the USA look down on public transit unless you live in a big city like New York, the rest of the world doesn’t really have this issue.
@@chrisfs1238 I live in NY and I know plenty people that look down on public transit and drive their personal cars to work. It's so stupid. And everybody's got their panties in a bunch over the coming congestion pricing.
@@chrisfs1238 They sure do, but it's kind of a self fulfilling prophecy. People don't fund it and complain that it's so inconvenient. As a society we really can't afford to have everyone driving their own cars though. Cars take up too much space!
I haven't used a taxi in over thirty years, don't really foresee myself needing one any time in the future, but if I ever do I'll still want to see a human behind the wheel.
Yes, but what if you have to pay $100 for a ride with a human or $50 for a robo-taxi?
@@sirrathersplendid4825 if I can't use my car I'll use the bus! Or call a friend to give me a lift
IN what city do you live and drive most regularly? Places deep in SF and NYC can be a very different and dangerous experience to drive in compared to many cities.
I'm sure taxis will be almost perfect when you are having cataracts.
@@okamijubei he already has them , hes about 80 by the sound of it
That guy makes a great point definitely cheaper then getting a hotel room 😁
Well, that depends on the hotel. Not all hotels are created equal
Yeah but still more expensive than a back alley dumpster.
Imagine trying to escape from someone and getting into one of these death traps, just for it to stop because it is confused…..
No movies with scenes like 'follow that car' 😭 anymore
Who are you running from?? Are you regularly being chased by people. You might want to consider changing some things in your life.
@@ninamatthews8747maybe a robber kidnapper crazy ex/ partner it could be anyone yall act like just cus life threatening situations are rare that they cant happen to anyone at anytime
Now imagine the same exact thing except a climate protester blocks traffic.
Yeah... that happens daily.
Imagine one running over a pedestrian. Who would trust a driverless car if your a pedestrian? This is insane.
These cars are going to be vandalized and stripped of parts within the first 2 weeks 😂
I have been riding 21 months.
They've be around for 2 years. Also they will remove the steering wheel soon
Driverless vehicles could go down as one of the dumbest inventions of all time
They said the same thing about cars.
@@citypavementCars were faster and better than horses, which is why cars were successful. These are worse than regular taxi drivers.
@@citypavement no they didn't
People need to realize there's a point where progression becomes regression. Just because you can think it and do it doesn't mean you should. We're turning into an Idiocracy.
It's totally the future. Very soon they will be safer than your average human driver. They're already almost there
Can't they just build trains?
No, they're too busy building trans
SF's notorious for not letting buildings get built. A lot of other cities scoff at the thought of trains of any kind. This isn't just a CA problem...
No because then automotive industries won’t meet their quota 😢
Imagine being the person who has to clean the interior every week. Or imagine them having to implement cameras or sensors to stop the car if people start getting weird in the back seat
I'm the guy who wipes down the loads. AMA
Everyone is rushing this BS and we're just not there yet. Do you pick your beans before you make a burrito? This is dumb.
Companies always trying not to hire humans who have bills to pay is disgusting. All they think of is profits.
Exactly! Like all those farmers who use harvesters and other machines instead of thousands of workers like it's used to be!
@@robertgworek2497 Are you ignorant? Mexican immigrants still farm like the "past" you are describing. They are the backbone of the food industry in the U.S.
you using technology to comment on a youtube video instead of mailing your comment to the TV studio by USPS.
We all save other humans' time where we can.
The problem is HOW we might do it. Having your robots block EMS is wrong.
@@robertgworek2497 a farmer is not necessarily a company eager to make profit for shareholders.
@@davidh4374 Companies want greedy profits, share holders want profits. They don't see families, they see $ numbers
Imagine you spend years working on a program that can literally drive its self all for it to be ruined by the placement of a single cone.
“You were so preoccupied with the idea that you could, you didn’t stop to think if you should”
-Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park.
Instead of investing in practical, proven, public transportation, the State is allowing this nonsense.
@chad9971,...they have busses, street cars, Uber, Lyft, and taxis. Is that not enough for you? The autonomous cars are there because of money. Those two companies made deals.
It's just too much at once. I realize they need street data to improve the systems, but these are too many significant problems in a single area. I think they need to cut back in numbers and have people more actively observing with the ability to take control as necessary
It's San Francisco, so ....... They tolerate everything and I mean everything. And, that is why San Francisco is a big dumpster fire.
It's the entire nation. The government incentivizes citizens who buy electric vehicles, but refuses to invest billions in public transportation and transit-oriented development. Other developed countries have much better infrastructure and public transit than we do. America's public transit has always been underfunded and undervalued.
Crazy to use experimental taxis in Fat Sam’s Disco when there are so many other American cities with simpler topography.
Why are these driverless taxis even allowed???? This is pointless. It will never work and it kills jobs.
It will work in a few years.
@@marvin8291 Maybe but it still kills jobs.
Cope harder dinosaur.
@@dougaltolan3017 That's nice.
@@dougaltolan3017 Dinosaurs lived longer than we ever will, so that's no good analogy xD
Businesses have a limited budget. They have to make things work in a certain time frame, or they go broke. If that means putting out an incomplete product, that is what they will be willing to do, even if the end result is death and destruction.
Until they're a budget boom
Wow..the robo taxis sounds like a good place to get some quicky in
Just another way corporations take over industries and no one gets held accountable.
Just another way corporations take over industries and governments....
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Where are all the Car Jackers when you need them.
Wait till the driverless semi trucks hit the highways… going to be a disaster.
@bbabbich3467 that would depend highly upon states creating designated infrastructure for that. It's not gonna happen anytime remotely soon
It could be an issue, but they also have to have the confidence from companies to ship especially valuable loads of cargo. Odds are they will still have a driver in them for some time, though perhaps mostly observing
Na, wont be a disaster bc they're going to be a lot more careful w the transport of goods than the transport of ppl. It's business vs the ppl, u know the drill.
I could see driverless trucks working on certain routes in Australia. Vast distances with almost nothing for the driver to do.
@bbabbich3467 lol 😂 your comment is soooo out of touch with reality. But that’s ok. Do you have any idea how complicated intra/inter-state travel is… and we are just going to magically create a dedicated lane for trucks? And that’s the fix? Have you ever driven in a major city? They can’t even manage to take care of the bridges and roads we already have. Your a comedian! 🤣
"I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you."
-- HAL 9000, shortly after murdering most of the crew of Discovery One
america will do anything to avoid public transit
Other countries are slowly doing the same thing
Crazy to use experimental taxis in Fat Sam’s Disco when there are so many other American cities with simpler topography.
Kansas City
Fat Sam’s Disco. I am going to steal that.
@@RoadTripzz14 - Not mine originally, but fun :-)
It was proposed years ago that emergency responders have an app that they can use to override the car and make it manual to deal with issues like this.
The world has lost it's mind!
So many people need work, not to mention the safety concerns, who is responsible and takes the punishment when these inevitably cause a fatality. These should not be allowed.
Sorry, dude. You lose. The soulless tech ghouls running Silicon Valley couldn't care less about pathetic meat bags losing their jobs. In fact, it's quite obvious that they DESPISE actual, 3-D human beings. The mantra is: "move fast and break things!" Break art and break music. Break democracy and break nature. Break the human race. As long as it makes another disposable billion to pile on top of their already putrid, rotting mountain of endless digital idiocy.
It would be better if we could just pay people to drive taxis. 😊
Yeah, but they'll want a living wage and dignity or whatever.
@@mr.joshua6818living wage? Ugh, millionaires need that money for a 4th yacht.
My boss thought I could hire a $400 a day nurse to take care of my girl. He threatened to fire me if I didn't come back ASAP. So I left ASAP without two weeks notice.
@@hybridPeople358lol what? Why does your boss care about personal responsibility?
@@hybridPeople358 You lost me. We need more context.
Take them off the roads!!!
Take yourself
You would think decision makers would use some logic and critical thinking on the cons of driverless taxis before giving the greenlight for it...
It's called lobbying
I love how people are just calm, forgetting the level of unemployment that will arise as a result of this. No more drivers buying food for breakfast lunch or dinner.
No way I'd be in the back of an autonomous vehicle as it drives me off the Golden Gate Bridge.
The lengths they'll go to keep from paying someone a living wage
It’s the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Google it with “World Economic Forum.”
@@angelofdarkness4479well with AI I’m sure they are hoping to remove even more jobs. Like data entry and even a more skilled job like computer programming.
Low frequency technology by low frequency people.
I bet if people started busting the windows out they’d get rid of them
Nope, because it's already happened, but because they're so well funded, they can afford the occasional broken window
I mean they're in the most likeliest place for that to happen. SF!
Man with what you added at the end…you know what, keep em!😂
The US will do anything short of having proper public transportation infrastructure.
Cruise is causing chaos in Austin, Texas as well!! They are almost always causing an accident. Ive had to drive around them cause they just randomly stop in the middle of the road. And they switch lanes without any hesitation, i hate them already.
Gee I can't imagine what could possibly go wrong
Whoever is promoting these driverless not ready for the roads yet is just testing the modern way.
Suspend the company. These cars need further testing.
Get them off the road!
The cars don't even know they are causing a problem. Imagine if one of them hit a kid, how would it even know? Does it have a bump detector?
It does, but it doesn’t sense all bumps. I’d imagine smaller kids = smaller bumps 🤷♂️
@@Mark_from_ITIdk, i accidentally hit an opossum in a hummer h2 and it felt like a pretty big bump.
it stops immediately
@@carpelunamdoes it call 911?
You're very wrong. They DO sense small bumps! Their sensors are that sensitive, that even the vibrations of a Harley's loud muffler triggers their sensors. Small dips in the road, or those pebble-like reflective bumps at many pedestrian crossings are felt by the cars. They have both camera and lidar sensors all around them that pick up the most tiny sounds, vibrations and touches.@@Mark_from_IT
Stop relying on robot cars to do our work.
Wouldn't the company be charged for obstructing traffic?
Flood en with tickets.
Driverless cars are not the solution to anything, because cars are the most inefficient way to transport anything.
Invest all that money instead into public transport that actually works, like trains and trams.
It needs another 1-2 year of flawless record for me to be sure for using that autonomous service 😂😂
Stop the WEF technocrats NWO from stealing our jobs. Do NOT support the GND/NWO.
No kidding I don’t want that thing going 80 in a 20 mph… Jesus
Blocking a fire truck and the company still thinks it’s hot. If their offices get sat on fire and their cars block the fire truck they need, then I guess it was all according to their fine design.
That Fire Chiefs voice is super high. Almost like he was inhaling helium
For now, how about somehow allowing emergency service personal to get in and manually control the car? Yes there needs some system to be setup but probably faster than to solve all autonomous driving issues.
Robo cars causing chaos and people defecating in the middle of the street. San Francisco, such a wonderful place.
hugely overblown. I work in the city and have never seen such a thing in my life.
When I was hit by a car there was a driver in it without a drivers license or insurance. Nothing is 100% safe. People sabotaging the driverless cars are causing more problems than the cars themselves.
It is legal to drive or be in a car naked. Just remember to get dressed before you get out.
Lol Driving naked is not legal
@@ghostwalk2446 It sure is as long as you don't get out of your car naked. look it up
Boycott them and only use cabs with human drivers and the driverless cabs will collapse
No they won't.
Well the citizens can put together a petition and if there's enough people something can be done this is ridiculous.
No bud. Nobodies gonna do that. Driverless cabs are the future whether you like it or not
Thats the thing left unsaid lots of people actually use them and need them especially people who work nightlife use these to get home
Do the driverless vehicles stop when a person walks in front of them? What would happen if people started deliberately walking in front of them all the time?
It great to live in a very rural small town and be able watch this circus knowing it will never come to this town!
Putting traffic cone on the car to confuse it. That's just perfect!
"this is what our country's comes to" that's how I feel when they created the smart phone used by most of the idiots on the road and the high horse power cars with abs/tcs and an automatic that people can barely control
No way am I going to get into one of those...not in the next 10 years at least, until the technology is perfected. This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen
Stopping in the middle of an intersection is dangerous enough but just wait until one of these parks on a railroad track and gets the passengers killed.
@@rooster1012 anxiety much? relax...
They probably are safer than human drivers already. That said these companies clearly aren't ready to go completely driverless if their cars are hitting fire trucks and getting stuck. They should be required to have a driver in the car until the tech is better able to handle these situations, not make the tax payers pay for their R&D
I think that taking a ride in one of these could be fun. Just bring a hummer with you just in case you need to get out on time.
Luddite
anything that prevents humans from driving is a huge positive
No it's not driving is for humans. You seem to be confused by the deep state
My wife’s brother test drove them and he said they’re OVER CAUTIOUS. He said people were honking, throwing coffee cups and whatever they could find on their dashboards at him. And the car is too easy to manipulate. All you have to do is stand in front of it or put a cone in front of it and it will basically sit there until the battery dies. Easy way to rob any passengers.
Then there is a people problem to address not a self-driving-car problem
Puzzles me why would anyone want to sit in a haunted car that drives itself. Darn spooky to see the steering wheel turns by itself at a corner!
Yeah. I live near SF. First time I saw it was creepy as I didn't know it was happening. It's still creepy, and now annoying since they are all over the place.
Robotaxis, hobos, megacorps, no police. The full cyberpunk experience
Say what you will about San Francisco , at least no can say it’s boring.
The battle of the AI’s has begun
People actually get in cars with no drivers?!? Humanity is braindead
Robot drivers = Robot translators.
Human drivers = human translators.
Why ? For what reason ? People want jobs and this is a nightmare for people
I think it's not safe yet, maybe in the future. Personally I wouldn't take a robot taxi. It's too soon to be safe.
You seen that robo taxi from the movie "total recall"?
Stop the WEF technocrats NWO from stealing our jobs. Do NOT support the GND/NWO.
Yes, JohnnyCab, but Arnold got impatient and tossed Johnny out the window.
@@DavidsProcessWestwasn't it because he was chased by Martian agents?
@@okamijubei yes, I think you're right, being chased and no time to get the robot to understand directions so he took the wheel. Do these have steering wheels?
It only takes a signal jammer to render them useless 😂
These driverless taxis should stop! There’s nothing safer than having a live driver in the car!
I’m 73 years old and live in the Bay Area. I really have a hard time understanding the benefit of having driverless taxis other than the fact that these companies are taking away jobs from people just trying to make a living.
For a Democratic Party that supposedly champions the little people, I find this so ironic.
They’re taking away low paying jobs from the community. I think if we can get rid of undesirable and unfulfilling work we’ll be a happier society.
You are correct. They serve no other purpose than to put people out of work and make tech swindlers lots of money from investors as well as local and State government officials getting bribes and cuts of the pie for giving the go ahead. It's a scam.
Global gangster capitalists always crave more money, power and influence, and that's what you're seeing at work here.
It's benefits are years away you're looking at this through too much of a short term lens
@@CyFi6 Enlighten us.
You can never predict all that can happen on the road, you can't substitute a conscience being with driving.
@bbabbich3467what about stoned drivers?
You can certainly make the substitution and not only make it but have better results. Ppl forget about averages when they see machines or software fail. It reaches a pt where it's def better than the "avg person" and the avg human driver isn't very good at all.
Their going to need AI
Where do you take this confidence from? what is the basis for your statement? do you study transportation, AI, programming? Or just another worthless uniformed opinion?
This is the same thing people have been saying about going to the Moon.. "Naaah, not in the thousand years!" "You'll never be able to get there!" (look it up)
Do you know that around 5 years ago Google self-driving car made 1 MILLION KM without an accident? Even the most experience professional drivers can't do few hundred thousand without crashing.
People get distracted, make mistakes, get ill, drunk, have to go to bathroom - whatever you think of. Giving people control of multiple-ton machines capable of going hundreds of mph is crazy.
What these machines need is redundancy - multiple systems - so if one fails, another takes over, just like you have in planes and autopilots.
We actually *need* self-driving transportation more than ever.
Yes, it will make mistakes, nothing is perfect, but it can only get better with time, if you work at it... not just bashing it.
There so many stories about human drivers killing people on the roads that it's not even worth putting in to news - so you only hear about this kind of stuff - because it's *rare*
@@Chasm9 it won't work to many things will go wrong.
Wow it’s almost like placing computers alongside normal drivers is a terrible idea. There’s no reason to try and implement fully self-driving cars until every car is capable of communicating with each other.
I don't know much about these driverless cars, but who's to say that hackers couldn't mess with these and sabotage them?
As a country we should refuse to recognize the validity of California licence plate and IDs driving in any other state. This Battery Cars self driving is only a disaster and must be stopped at the border
Er, these cars get the license plate of whatever state they're in. I doubt they're even built in California?
the technology is amazing it create traffic and crashes
Don't use these. All someone has to do is program the car. To lock you in and drive you somewhere you not supposed to go. Dangerous and ridiculous. Oh by the way. Each car has a camera in eat. With a remote operator at base.
Sure, but each remote operator is probably controlling a dozen or more cars. And if he needs to take a break for 5 minutes, the cars are on their own. Also, what happens when the network crashes?
Source?
Did you really misspell "it"???
@@turbojon8117 Yeah, is it 'it', 'eat', 'seat', 'heat'?
It will get really interesting when those driverless tractor trailers appear everywhere. Insanity.
Nice video! I wonder when they will begin operations again. You must have been exhausted.
this is greatly overblown. People are just upset there's nobody to flip off when there's one of the usual traffic jams. If you want to blame someone people ought to blame all the nimbyism in the Bay Area for not having enough freeway capacity.
I can't believe that any State, especially CA allows these driver less cars to exist on the roads.
Calif stooges
Cope harder
California is known for innovation. I’d expect it there first
CA has always pioneered new tech. It doesn't always succeed, but you miss all the shots you don't take right? So why not be the leader, and when it pays off, you get the world's 5th strongest economy.
"Zero fatalities or serious injuries..."
Give it time. 😅
The tech is not sound, its just a square being hamfisted into a triangle slot.
San Francisco: lenient on store robberies, people pooping on public sidewalks, hobo camps overtaking neighborhoods
Also SF: "You know what this city needs? Autonomous cars."
💀
No matter how good technology gets, even in 100% ideal perfect conditions, it can only react to what it is seeing, react to problems it has caused, or react to an accident already happening. A human driver can use their judgement to predict and anticipate.
Cheaper than a motel room 😂 what a closing statement.
Best surprise ending ever in a news story in recent memory.
I wish there was a way that we could develop a kind of mass transit type system that cuts down on these issues. I wonder if that exists anywhere 🤔
@@JiveCinemanot everyone lives in a big city. Don't be that guy
The answer to your car dependence are trains and busses to supplement your transportation. Not necessarily replace them. Rural living should not exclude you from being a public steward. You're still a citizen of this country.
Not one or the other. But cities in the States are obviously car centric. No need to panic if you need to drive a car, you’ll be fine 🇺🇸
It might be driverless, but it should still have a driver behind the wheel to make sure that it is running correctly and it doesn't block traffic. Also, they look like they park funny too. And it won't be long before they get hacked, and if that happens they will be shut down while they are diving someone or they will be out of control.
That defeats the point.
i would never get in a self driving car... seems insane to me lol
I imagine going from horse and carriage to car was just as laughable lolol. The horses would freak out when they saw a car lol
The main issues we cannot address is infrastructure.
In Boston, there is a small LED signal on every traffic light that flashes when an emergency vehicle is in the area. Easy solution.
Guiding sensors on roads and streets are needed to make these drive safer and more streamline. It is common sense.