Self-driving cars are on the rise. In the United States, driverless taxis are becoming more common, but sometimes the experience accidents. The scene, filmed by a passerby and shared on Twitter, shows a Chevrolet Bolt of the Cruise brand at a crossroads. The emergency alarm is on, the car could not be restarted !

is there the pilot… in the car?

Launched in spring 2022 in San Francisco, Cruisea subsidiary of General Motors, is a new trend driverless cars. Unmanned taxisonly works at night between 10 pm and 6 am. This time the technology showed its limits. Stuck at a green light Chevy bolt remained on the taxiway for more than 10 minutes. Meanwhile, other motorists continued to drive, trying to pass the Chevy in trouble. Fortunately no injuries was notified and a company technician arrived to troubleshoot the self-driving car.

Already several previous…

This isn’t the first time Cruise has come under fire for problems with its autonomous vehicles. In the summer of 2022with Taxi met blocked along the width of the road. Worse, after some time the vehicle was stopped “Movement without fire”, in the middle of the night. with lack of a driver inside the Chevy Bolts is a difficult technical problem to solve at the moment. Like in this video. One more thing for the record the company’s unmanned taxi Waymo, who stopped behind the “Cruise” car at the time of the incident. The autonomous vehicles are not yet fulfilling all their promises. After seeing this, you won’t be surprised if you ever come across a taxi… with no one inside!

Discover this rather special scene on the streets of San Francisco in the video:

Wow, the highlight of my weekend is watching a malfunctioning self-driving car in the wild that has already turned green several times @Cruise come get your boyfriend pic.twitter.com/PfcgGbA56D

— Kelly s. (@k_pendergrast) December 4, 2022