A stalled Cruise robotaxi blocked a San Francisco ambulance from getting a pedestrian hit by a vehicle to the hospital in an Aug. 14 incident, according to first responder accounts. The patient later died of their injuries.
“The patient was packaged for transport with life-threatening injuries, but we were unable to leave the scene initially due to the Cruise vehicles not moving,” the San Francisco Fire Department report, first reported by Forbes, reads. “The fact that Cruise autonomous vehicles continue to block ingress and egress to critical 911 calls is unacceptable.”
Nah fam. If you take a job in emergency services, you need to not freeze in emergency situations.
And yet they sometimes do. I’ve worked with combat veterans where arguably it’s even more important to not freeze and they still do. Some of them never forgive themselves. Practice can help but the nervous system still has its instinctual modes.