A serious crash has once again put self-driving cars under scrutiny in San Francisco after a Monday night incident left a female pedestrian in grave condition.
But this incident started with a human driver who hit a woman, sending her into the path of a Cruise robotaxi.in the crosswalk at Market and Fifth streets right after the traffic light turned green. She was then run over and pinned by the driverless car.
"Velocity and speed and actuation of brakes and vehicular technology can only happen so quickly in these emergency situations," said autonomy transportation Expert and USF School of Management Professor Billy Riggs. Koopman is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who's been researching autonomous vehicles for more than two decades.
"This is more so than some of the other things that they've dealt with recently, one of these cases of an unavoidable collision. Ultimately, it is the result of human error," said Riggs. City Attorney of San Francisco David Chiu meanwhile is pushing for state regulators to reconsider their recent approval of unlimited expansion for robotaxis.
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