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San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill (finance.yahoo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Just one day after state officials approved massive robotaxi expansion in San Francisco, a long line of the driverless cars come to a standstill and clog traffic in North Beach neighborhood.

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[–] athos77@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cruise blamed cellphone carriers for the problem. [...] Cruise government affairs manager Lauren Wilson [said] “As I understand it, [a large music festival] impacted LTE cell connectivity and ability for RA advisors to route cars.”

Then they should have a backup communications option for when something happens. Cellphone towers can be destroyed in a wildfire, earthquake, tornado or infrastructure attack. Every time there's a major disaster, the cellphone lines get overwhelmed. And if the thing that's going to drive you away from where the disaster is occurring is also affected, then that's a problem that needs to be fixed, preferably before these machines become any more widespread.

[–] Cheesus@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Their response isn't very reassuring that they blamed outside lands. They need to get off the streets during a disaster so emergency vehicles can get by but instead it sounds like they will be stuck clogging up roads.