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City agencies even filed with regulators.authorities letter with complaints about robotaxis. It was one of a series of letters sent to the California Public Utilities Commission this week by transportation officials in San Francisco and Los Angeles seeking to stall requests from Cruise and Waymo to expand their paid robotaxi services in both cities.
The letter talks about three incidents that occurredsince December, when driverless taxis were the cause of false emergency calls. Passengers stopped responding to the voice communication system integrated into the car, which is why Cruise employees called 911. Police and rescuers arrived at the scene of the “incident,” but they only found a passenger quietly sleeping inside the taxi.
In addition, Cruise cars often interferework of firefighters. One incident occurred last June, days after the state allowed Cruise to pick up paying passengers in the city. The agency's letter states that one of the company's robotaxi ran over a fire hose being used at the fire scene. A second similar incident occurred last week: a car was driven toward firefighters' hoses until one of them had to break the window of a taxi. Last spring, a vehicle blocked one of the department's fire trucks on its way to a major fire for about 25 seconds.
In addition, from the end of May to the end of December, cars of the same company 92 times found themselves in a situation where they unexpectedly simply stopped in the middle of the road for no reason.