Accident took place in San Francisco in the USA between autonomous taxi and a truck fire. This incident plunged the city into chaos a few hours. That’s why the authorities made a request that sounds like hell stop at General Motors.

A catastrophic situation in San Francisco

A few days ago in San Francisco, an autonomous cruise taxi was involved in an accident with a fire truck in full action.

if this is not the case for the first time what we can see these imagesclearly there was too much time authorities

Indeed, General Motors needs to cut back immediately its active fleet 50% and that’s it for now investigation regarding the incident finished

According to local mass medianow it will be only 50 taxis during the day and 150 taxis Overnight.

What is the situation in France?

This is quite a setback for technologies autonomous driving. The ability to see what is situation In France ?

Currently there is a decree, voted July 1, 2021 and has been in use ever since September 1, 2022to allow to vehicles equipped with autonomous driving level 3 contour freely in hexagon.

Autonomous driving level 3 is required certain restrictions like speed 60 km/h maximum, behavior on the way to the sidewalk separately or drive on the road without tape or a bike lane or crosswalk.

We still have a long way to go by taxi we found in San Francisco. Valeo is currently working on a LiDAR sensor that allows reveal objects as well as obstacles what to evaluate distance with the help of a laser.

Technology that has already won many builders as Stellantis. When accumulating bad experience in the United States there is no doubt french government will be more vigilant about this technology.

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