Fleet of driverless cars block street causing traffic chaos for hours

Autonomous driving has plenty of benefits, but it doesn’t always go smoothly.

That was the case in San Francisco recently when a fleet of driverless taxis seemingly ground to a halt at an intersection and blocked traffic for several hours.

Eventually the cars, operated by Cruise (which is owned by General Motors), had to be physically removed by human engineers called out to the site

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