{"id":169468,"date":"2023-08-11T10:26:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/cruise-and-waymo-win-robotaxi-expansions-in-san-francisco"},"modified":"2023-08-11T10:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:26:30","slug":"cruise-and-waymo-win-robotaxi-expansions-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/cruise-and-waymo-win-robotaxi-expansions-in-san-francisco","title":{"rendered":"Cruise and Waymo win robotaxi expansions in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cruise-and-waymo-win-robotaxi-expansions-in-san-francisco2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a win for the autonomous vehicle industry, California regulators have given the green light to Cruise and Waymo to offer commercial robotaxi services across San Francisco 24 hours a day, seven days a week.<\/p>\n<p>The commission voted 3\u20131 in support of the expansions; Commissioner Genevieve Shiroma cast the sole \u201cno\u201d vote.<\/p>\n<p>The California Public Utilities Commission\u2019s (CPUC) votes in favor of the AV companies come in spite of <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/05\/18\/cruise-waymo-near-approval-to-charge-for-24-7-robotaxis-in-san-francisco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mounting opposition<\/a> from residents and city agencies that have urged caution and a more incremental approach to expansion. Since AVs hit the streets of San Francisco, there have been numerous instances of vehicles malfunctioning and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/06\/30\/cruise-robotaxis-blocked-traffic-for-hours-on-this-san-francisco-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stopping in the middle of the street<\/a> \u2014 referred to as \u201cbricking\u201d \u2014 blocking the flow of traffic, public transit and emergency responders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a win for the autonomous vehicle industry, California regulators have given the green light to Cruise and Waymo to offer commercial robotaxi services across San Francisco 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The commission voted 3\u20131 in support of the expansions; Commissioner Genevieve Shiroma cast the sole \u201cno\u201d vote. The California Public [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}