Cruise Autonomous Car Blocked Fire Truck Responding to Emergency

What happened

A fire truck in San Francisco responding to a fire was blocked from passing a doubled-parked garbage truck by a self-driving Cruise car on the opposing lane which stayed put and did not reverse to clear the lane.

Reported impact

Affected parties

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Harm type

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Financial impact

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Regulatory action

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Classification

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Incident type

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Relevant governance controls

Governance control mapping is not available for this record.

• No controls mappedNot publicly disclosed

Control mapping is analytical. It does not state that any control would have prevented the incident.

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