"Those self-conratulatory claims from Cruise officials came to a complete halt after a self-driving Cruise vehicle dragged a San Francisco pedestrian 20 feet, in an incident that ultimately led to the downfall of a Cruise as a company. Cruise is gone and now Waymo is the dominant robotaxi company, but they too are now dealing with the blowback of a safety violation some 2,500 miles away in Atlanta, Georgia."
"As seen in the video above from Atlanta's WXIA, a Waymo illegally darted around a school bus with its stop light on, according to KGW. And the Chronicle reports that the bus was unloading children at the time, as of course, its flashing red stop lights were activated. Georgia state lawmakers are up in arms, as they recently passed strict laws and still penalties around passing school buses with their stop lights on."
""I'm a big fan of new technologies and emerging technologies and I think that driverless cars are going to become more prevalent, but we got to think about how they're going to comply with the law," Georgia state rep Clint Crowe told WXIA. These cars don't have a driver, so they don't have a driver's license and so we're really going to have to rethink who's the responsible party, who's going to be responsible for being in control of th"
A Waymo robotaxi illegally drove around a school bus in suburban Atlanta while the bus was unloading children with its flashing red stop lights activated. Georgia lawmakers reacted angrily because state law imposes strict penalties for passing stopped school buses, but those penalties are not clearly applicable to driverless vehicles. The incident follows prior safety concerns in San Francisco in 2023 involving self-driving vehicles and the high-profile collapse of Cruise after a pedestrian was dragged. Lawmakers and officials are questioning legal responsibility, enforcement mechanisms, and how autonomous vehicles will comply with existing traffic laws.
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