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‘It Doesn’t Know What to Do!:’ Waymo Driverless Taxi Causes Chaos for First Responders at Fire Scene

A Waymo autonomous taxi caused chaos navigating a fire scene in San Francisco, exposing the challenges driverless vehicles face in reacting to unusual situations and commands from first responders. Police officers desperately worked to stop the driverless vehicle from running over a hose being used by firefighters to put out a fire. Body camera footage captured one officer explaining, “Got a bit of a pickle. I got an autonomous vehicle, the Waymo, it’s inching slowly and closely to one of the main water lines that the SF Fire just charged. Can’t run it over,” he says. “I don’t trust this AI.”

Waymo driverless car in San Francisco (waltarrrrr/Flickr)

Police: Tech Exec Nima Momeni Murdered Cash App Founder Bob Lee, Has a Record of Knife Crimes

San Francisco police arrested tech entrepreneur Nima Momeni under suspicion of murder in connection with the stabbing death of CashApp founder Bob Lee. According to the police, Momeni has a record including several crimes involving a knife. Momeni and Lee were reportedly traveling through the city in Momeni’s car before the incident occurred in the middle of the night last Thursday.

Bob Lee stabbed to death in San Francisco

San Francisco Traffic Snarled by Self-Driving Car Disruptions

Self-driving cars have reportedly caused increased delays, confusion, and anxiety among public transit drivers as self-driving car companies plan to further expand their fleet. One city official explained, “We are very concerned that if autonomous vehicles are allowed limitless, driverless operations in San Francisco that the traffic impacts grow exponentially.”

Cruise Robotaxi

Victim Blaming: San Francisco State Student Government Blames ‘Violence’ on Riley Gaines, TPUSA

Associated Students of San Francisco State, which serves as the student government at the university, released a memo about the recent Turning Point USA event on campus featuring former NCAA women’s swimming star Riley Gaines, claiming the swimmer and TPUSA spread “hateful rhetoric and promotion of violence” at the event where Gaines was attacked by a mob of transgender activists and barricaded in a room for hours.

Police protect Riley Gaines from an enraged mob of transgender activists at SFSU Golden Ga