Rather ironically, Cruise ran a full-page advertisement in the New York Times in July where it said that “Humans are terrible drivers.”
Roughly 20 autonomous taxis operated by General Motors’ Cruise business unit caused a traffic jam on San Gabriel Street in Austin, Texas last weekend, prompting residents to vent out on social media.s advancing at tortoise speeds with their hazard lights on, with some of them having managed to turn around and face each other somehow, in what looks like a slow-motion four-wheeled robot faceoff.
All Cruise AVs are remotely monitored and the cars that were involved in this latest incident eventually left the area on their own, according to the spokesperson, who added that the company was alerted to a crowding event on Austin’s San Gabriel Street on Sunday and that technicians were able to address the issue.
One person who was at the scene and shot several photos and videos said that Cruise workers were trying to operate the Bolt EVs via remote control. This isn’t the first time GM’s robotaxi business stepped on the nerves of residents in the cities it operates, with several incidents documented in San Francisco, the latest of which –
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