Six days before the California Public Utilities Commission was poised to allow Cruise and Waymo to expand their operations in San Francisco, I rode in two of Cruise’s autonomous vehicles during a night out in The City.
Double-parked cars flummoxed my first ride, which also ran a red light. The second took a circuitous route, potentially longer than a human driver would. Much of that context was on my mind when Americana, a self-driving Cruise car, picked me up last Friday. Elon Musk says he loves San Francisco — here’s how he can show it Elon Musk could easily become The City’s biggest philanthropist, writes The Examiner's Owen Thomas
The vehicle swerved slightly away from double-parked cars, awkwardly keeping itself in its lane. Occasionally it hesitated between slowing down at or driving through yellow lights. While I scrolled through trivia categories, my roommate pointed out that the car ran a red light near Lafayette Park. An absence of other drivers on the road at midnight made this ride seem a lot smoother. As we snaked through parts of the Mission District, I couldn’t help but wonder how much quicker the ride would have gone if the car was able to traverse through The City’s hilly areas. Cruise currently has restrictions on which parts of The City its cars can drive, and when, and state regulators’ vote on Thursday could lift them.
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