Just one day after state officials approved massive robotaxi expansion in San Francisco, a long line of the driverless cars come to a standstill and clog traffic in North Beach neighborhood.

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    Here’s an idea, instead of individual cars, we could combine them into a few cars pulled 1 big car. And given they pretty much go to the same place, we could put them on some sort of tracks to reduce rubber wear, like steel wheels. We could even make it stop at a couple of useful places along the way… Wait.

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    fears what could happen when a major fire or other life-threatening emergency breaks out with multiple robotaxis blocking the way.

    Don’t they have laws that all vehicles must make way etc.? Aren’t these Borg vehicles required to follow laws?

    Cruise blamed cellphone carriers for the problem.

    Real world always has some connectivity problems somewhere. These vehicles must be able to deal with it.

    It means simply that these vehicles are not ready to run in the real world. Goto junkyard.

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    Cruise blamed cellphone carriers for the problem. […] Cruise government affairs manager Lauren Wilson [said] “As I understand it, [a large music festival] impacted LTE cell connectivity and ability for RA advisors to route cars.”

    Then they should have a backup communications option for when something happens. Cellphone towers can be destroyed in a wildfire, earthquake, tornado or infrastructure attack. Every time there’s a major disaster, the cellphone lines get overwhelmed. And if the thing that’s going to drive you away from where the disaster is occurring is also affected, then that’s a problem that needs to be fixed, preferably before these machines become any more widespread.

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      Their response isn’t very reassuring that they blamed outside lands. They need to get off the streets during a disaster so emergency vehicles can get by but instead it sounds like they will be stuck clogging up roads.

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      protesting the deregulation of their industry
      protesting how criminal exploitative companies are risking their profession

      gee yeah, side with the morally bankrupt corporations

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      In a way it has. The fleet of robotaxis blocked traffic due to their low cell service and now the company responsible is washing their hands clean by saying it’s not our problem, it’s the lack of cell service!

      So, if at any point, they get less than optimal signal then they’ll put the grid in a deadlock?

      Sounds even worse than people protesting to earn a living and get equal treatment