Driverless Taxis Blocked Ambulance in Fatal Accident, San Francisco Fire Dept. Says
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Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company said it was not at fault.

Driverless taxis blocked ambulance response to fatal accident, San Francisco Fire Dept. says::Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company said it was not at fault.

  • doublejay1999English
    817·
    2 years ago

    If i was an ambo driver, a self driving car would block be for about 2.5 seconds

    • Flying SquidEnglish
      72·
      2 years ago

      That sounds like an extremely safe and not at all horribly dangerous to a significant number of people thing to do in the middle of a city.

    • EdibleFriendEnglish
      73·
      2 years ago

      I am gonna guess you have some half baked action movie shit in your mind about just ramming it? And then the ambulance just…drives away?

      • A_AEnglish
        62·
        2 years ago

        if to save a life I would (no doubt) gently push that stupid car out of the way. Wouldn’t you ?

        • doublejay1999English
          51·
          2 years ago

          exactly.

          seems like everyone imagines im bruce willis, zooming down market street, swerving to avoiding gunfire, with some poor soul on stretcher being dragged behind the ambulance at 90mph .

          • A_AEnglish
            32·
            2 years ago

            I guess you and I know more about mechanics than the average person 👍

          • doublejay1999English
            1·
            2 years ago

            another one with the hollywood imagination. give it some thought.

          • A_AEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            lol. You don’t know much about mechanics… do you ? And ambulance is a truck and it is heavy. You would be right if the vehicle to be pushed away was not so light. Anyway, you can feel it when you start to push how the vehicles reacts.

      • doublejay1999English
        41·
        2 years ago

        and I’m gonna guess you imagine me driving an ambulance at 50 miles per hour and send the robocabs skittling into a crowd, when the boring reality is that they could be safely push out of the way.

      • NeoNachtwaechterEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        some half baked action movie shit in your mind

        I was thinking about the “japanese motorcycle repair kit” :-) (but only thinking, of course)