Here’s what happens when cops pull over a driverless Cruise vehicle
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#5Y1HA)
Police pulled over the Cruise vehicle for not having its headlights on. | Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images It's been a little over two months since Cruise started letting the people of San Francisco catch rides on its driverless robotaxis, and one of its cars already had a run-in with police. In a video originally posted to Instagram last weekend, the user captures the awkward - and somewhat comical - interaction between the San Francisco Police Department and the autonomous vehicle after it's pulled over for not having its lights on.
After stopping the Chevy Bolt-turned-Cruise vehicle, a police officer goes up to its window, tries to (unsuccessfully) open the door, and starts walking back to his cruiser. The autonomous vehicle begins to drive away in what at first seems like the perfect start to a police chase, but then pulls over and puts...