A witness told CNBC the driverless Cruise vehicles did not appear to detect and avoid the caution tape and bus wires, and instead became 'tangled in them.'
' self-driving vehicle unit Cruise acknowledged that some of its cars stalled out on city streets in San Francisco following rainstorms that downed trees there on Tuesday night.
He told CNBC that around 1:45 p.m. on March 22, a large tree on the corner of Jones and Clay streets fell onto lines that power the city's buses, "pulling them down." After that, another tree on Polk and Clay streets fell into the street. In response, he said, the San Francisco Fire Department had blocked off Clay between Polk and Jones streets with caution tape.
Bettencourt told CNBC via message, "The first car was a little in the path of the cross-street . Leavenworth & Clay are the cross streets. The second car was not blocking anything because behind it was all blocked off I think the technology is very interesting. I mean it's the stuff people my age only talked about when we were kids."
CNBC reached out to Cruise seeking further details including about how many of its robotaxis failed during or following the rainstorm in San Francisco on Tuesday, whether any injuries or property damage occurred as a result, and how quickly the company was able to remove any stalled vehicles manually from roadways.
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