San Francisco Is Teeming With Self-Driving Cars And It’s A Mess

It's baffling how US cities don't try to improve public transport instead of trying to increase cars on the road

Self driving cars are an example of a technology where 90% of the problems have been solved but the other 10% is going to take decades if at all.

I think it's reasonable that emergency services should be given a "master key" so they can jump into any autonomous taxi and move it.

Her "He kicked the car, he just spat on the car." Customer service "Do you feel safe?" Her "yes" this must happen alot in san fransico.

Who is accepting legal responsibility for a death of a person as a result of self-driving car impeding fire or ambulance service?

To be fair, driving in San Francisco is usually pretty similar to that first ride anyway. As a 10-year resident of SF, being stuck behind a jerk with their hazards on every 500 feet, some thug or vagrant spitting on your car or kicking it, and feeling generally uneasy about the next block is on par.

The business pressure to push these should be a giant red flag. This is about saving money paying people not making the roads safer. Public transportation would be a much bigger effect on safety.

Who is asking for this technology exactly? Can we please just perfect the automatic sink, soap, and towel-dispenser situation in every bathroom everywhere first?

I saw one of these run a red light in Houston. No joke.

Waymo uses proprietary technology that allows for human personnel to remotely control the vehicles in the rare case that the automated system needs help.

Drivers or AVs who drive "carefully" but are also largely oblivious of road conditions and don't drive well with traffic flows may cause collateral incidents or accidents that aren't counted in the safety statistics of that driver. Such as a driver getting confused and stopping dangerously may cause another car that then veers around it to get into an unnecessary crash. So I think saying these cars are safer because of their crash statistics when they're clearly being observed as driving badly and causing traffic interruptions is probably misleading

Thanks for this excellent reporting! I was curious about the latest in self driving cars.

Nobody else thought that the guy arguing with the autonomous car was pure comedy!

That could have ended badly! Thanks for story&stay safe!

I Love that Deirdra is doing field reporting now! Seeing her on this report is a pleasant surprise! Can't wait to see you on the next one, Deirdra! 👍🏾👍🏾

I was recently teaching my step-son how to drive. Almost none of my tutoring was about the general rules of driving, 99% of what I was teaching him was how to be prepared for the stupid stuff people might do. As a programmer myself, I don't see how you can make a proper self driving car without having a true artificial intelligence that can literally process thoughts (like a human) on it's own. Referring to a database of similar scenarios is never going to be sufficient because people can do some pretty random things

It would be good if more emphasis was made in the differences between the two companies. All of the issues shown and discussed in this segment involved Cruise vehicles. They're the ones sprinting out the gate, who's permit was pulled and decided to slow down and pause operations. Meanwhile, Waymo has slowly and quietly operated under the radar, without incidents, which I think says a lot. Yes, both companies operate autonomous vehicles but I think comparing the two would be like night and day.

16:58 - Cruise CEO goes "I think we are doing a great job there..." as they're showing a clip of their vehicle straddling between 2 lanes LOL.

The fire chief is one of the most reasonable public officials I've ever listened to.

Amazing thanks for sharing with us