Driverless taxis blocked ambulance response to fatal accident, San Francisco Fire Dept. says::Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company said it was not at fault.

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      1 year ago

      That sounds like an extremely safe and not at all horribly dangerous to a significant number of people thing to do in the middle of a city.

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      1 year ago

      I am gonna guess you have some half baked action movie shit in your mind about just ramming it? And then the ambulance just…drives away?

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        1 year ago

        if to save a life I would (no doubt) gently push that stupid car out of the way. Wouldn’t you ?

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          1 year ago

          exactly.

          seems like everyone imagines im bruce willis, zooming down market street, swerving to avoiding gunfire, with some poor soul on stretcher being dragged behind the ambulance at 90mph .

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            1 year ago

            I guess you and I know more about mechanics than the average person 👍

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            1 year ago

            lol. You don’t know much about mechanics… do you ? And ambulance is a truck and it is heavy. You would be right if the vehicle to be pushed away was not so light. Anyway, you can feel it when you start to push how the vehicles reacts.

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        1 year ago

        and I’m gonna guess you imagine me driving an ambulance at 50 miles per hour and send the robocabs skittling into a crowd, when the boring reality is that they could be safely push out of the way.

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        some half baked action movie shit in your mind

        I was thinking about the “japanese motorcycle repair kit” :-) (but only thinking, of course)