"If we're going to make good choices about this technology, we need to understand entirely new types of risk. This incident showed that while driverless tech may be safer on average than human drivers, it can still go wrong in completely new ways."
"The cause of the incident is still under further investigation, with local police indicating that initial findings suggested a system malfunction led to the vehicles stopping in the middle of the road."
A mass robotaxi outage in Wuhan involved over a hundred self-driving cars stopping mid-traffic, attributed to a system malfunction. Local police reported no injuries, and passengers exited safely. Videos on social media documented the incident, including a highway collision. Baidu's Apollo Go service operates in multiple cities, and partnerships with Uber and Lyft aim to test these vehicles in the UK by 2026, pending regulatory approval. Experts emphasize the need to understand new risks associated with driverless technology, as previous incidents have also raised safety concerns.
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