Law enforcement authorities in San Francisco pulled a self-drive cruise hatchback earlier this month to move with the headlights. The incident video, which was first distributed on Instagram, showed a police vehicle and a police officer approached an autonomous cruise car on the city road at night. Officers can be seen walking to the left of the car – the party where a police officer in North America is generally safe in the assumption they will find human drivers.
The clerk can be seen looking confused, talking about the shortage of different cars in it. This car is displayed a few meters ahead and stops in an open parking lot near the traffic light. The police chased, then tried to contact the Human Representative Team Cruise to sort this problem. However, the situation has attracted several interesting responses and opinions about social media, starting with the point where the vehicle seems to avoid the law.
It seems that a joint comment from the first time the video is a cruise vehicle appears trying to avoid the police in the brave moment of ignorance. Cruise responded to a comment like that, tweeting that the autonomous vehicle stopped in the “nearest safe location, as intended.” In a statement shared with the BBC, a cruise representative suggested that the reason the car was drawn in the first place – the main damage – was the result of human mistakes.
The company, which began testing the self-driving robot-taxi service in San Francisco in February this year, said the car was equipped with a mic so they could listen and respond to sirens. The company also has an escalation team with a special helpline number that attend questions from law enforcement officials. And if necessary, the team can complete tasks like not open the door from the autonomous vehicle door and bring it to stop in a safe place. This was not the first time a car was automatically pulled by the police for violating the law, and it would not be the last.
Cruise also released videos that detailed the safety system and how the respondent interacts with the Self-Driving Armad car. However, there are greater questions that need to be answered from the policy-making perspective when it comes to handling self-driving cars that have been involved in situations where the law has been damaged or the possibility of being damaged in the future.