Robotaxis are gaining dubious fame for impeding traffic and being an unreliable transportation solution.
The hope is that, in the future, they will become as accepted as cellphones.
Cruise attributes these incidents to connectivity problems stemming from heavy cellular usage at the Outside Lands festival in Golden Gate Park. Philip Koopman, a Carnegie Mellon professor, engineer, and expert in robocar technology, said, "These vehicles need continuous connectivity back to a central office and what the companies say is when they loose the connectivity the cars stop to assure safety."As many as 10 Cruise driverless taxis stopped working in San Francisco’s North Beach on Friday night.
"You have this vehicle that's blocking the road and an ambulance can't get through and a fire truck can't get trough, that puts people's lives in danger whether they're in the car or not. The CPUC basically gave the companies a pass on that," Koopman criticized. He continued, "Eventually, these vehicles have to be able to operate safely without connectivity because connectivity will always be broken. That's just the nature of the technology.
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