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San Francisco Begs California to Pause Robotaxi Infestation
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San Francisco Begs California to Pause Robotaxi Infestation

Published August 18, 2023
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A Waymo robotaxi on the streets of San Francisco.
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The future is nigh, but San Francisco wants to push it off just a little farther. The Bay Area city is asking California regulators to push pause on the expansion of robotaxi services from Waymo and Cruise.

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TechCrunch reports that San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed a motion with the California Public Utilities Commission asking the agency to halt the recent expansion of Waymo and Cruise services. Last week, CPUC approved permits for Waymo and Cruise to charge for their robotaxi services at all hours of the day without the need for a human backup driver. Chiu argues in the motion that the expanded robotaxi service will increase traffic and unplanned stops. Cruise operates 250 self-driving taxis in the city while Waymo operates 300 during the day and 100 at night, according to Axios.

“San Francisco will suffer serious harm if (Cruise and Waymo are) allowed expansion in the city with no limitations on geographic area, service hours, and fleet size,” Chiu wrote in the motion, as quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle. “It is foreseeable that driverless AV operations will significantly expand in the near term.”

Prior to the expansion, Cruise and Waymo were able to operate in the city but at a reduced capacity. According to a CPUC press release, Cruise could charge for service between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. without a safety drive, while Waymo could charge for passenger service at any time but only with a safety driver in the car. Waymo was also able to operate its cars completely autonomously but was unable to charge passengers for those services.

“While we do not yet have the data to judge AVs against the standard human drivers are setting, I do believe in the potential of this technology to increase safety on the roadway,” CPUC Commissioner John Reynolds said in the release.

Chiu and CPUC did not immediately return Gizmodo’s request for comment on the request to halt services.

Earlier this week, a Cruise robotaxi crashed a construction site and hilariously got stuck in a patch of wet cement. Par for the course, as Cruise’s self-driving taxis caused a reported 12 incidents involving San Francisco’s Municipal Transport Authority between September 2022 and March 2023, including one incident in which a car came to a complete stop in front of a city bus. While most of the incidents of this nature are just serious inconveniences, some have fatal consequences. TechCrunch previously reported that a Waymo taxi hit and killed a dog in San Francisco last May.

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